Fahmida Y. Rashid reports: A solo attacker has hacked into an events management company and obtained sensitive information belonging to 20,000 individuals, many of whom were United States government employees or contractors. The cyber-attacker posted an Excel spreadsheet containing log-in credentials and personal information for 20,000 people obtained from allianceforbiz.com, according to a blog post…
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UK: Hays Discloses RBS Pay Deals in Email Gaffe
Mark Kleinman reports: The recruitment specialist Hays is at the centre of an embarrassing gaffe today after one of its employees distributed an email disclosing the remuneration of thousands of contractors working for the state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). I have learnt that a Hays employee yesterday inadvertently forwarded a message showing the pay…
UAE: Employee arrested for credit card fraud
Matovu Abdallah Twaha reports: An Arab man working for a major electronic company in Dubai was arrested for stealing customers’ credit card information and using it to buy expensive products from the same company. Director of Electronic Investigations at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Maj. Saeed Al Hajiri said they were informed in July about…
Allstate Financial notifies clients that their personal information was on lost laptop
On July 25, Allstate Financial sent out letters to some clients, informing them that their personal information was on a laptop that was lost by a Connecticut-based personal financial representative on May 23. According to the letter, a copy of which was uploaded to Vermont’s Attorney General’s web site, the missing laptop was not reported…
Lincoln Financial Group notifies 91,763 enrollees that programming error may have exposed their Social Security Numbers
For the second time in as many months, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York have notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach. By letter dated August 15, the company’s attorneys reported that due to a programming error that existed in the database’s search…
Kr: SK loses more customer information
Kim Mi-ju reports: Cell phone numbers of 38,000 users of a discontinued traffic information service run by an affiliate of SK Group were leaked online and the company said yesterday that it completely deleted related data on Sunday. According to sources, a real-time traffic information text message and Web site service Entrac, operated by SK…