This week, ABM Industries notified some current and former employees that their names and Social Security numbers are in the hands of a thief. According to the letter sent by ABM to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, on March 5, the Atlanta office of ABM was broken into and some electronic items were stolen. One…
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Malware compromises infogroup payment transactions
Omaha-based Infogroup recently notified clients that their credit card information may have been accessed. Attorneys for the data, research and marketing company informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on April 12 that the firm had recently detected that some of its computers had been infected with a virus that may have compromised some payment transactions….
Searching for free hosting? Hacking GoGrid is not the way to go.
On April 1, GoGrid LLC, which operates as GoGrid, ServePath, ColoServe and Upstream Networks, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had detected an unauthorized intrusion into their system. The intruder may have been able to view customer information for the period November 2008 until the detection of the breach. Exposed data included…
The Hackett guilty plea: Who is “Company One?”
When Rogelio Hackett, Jr. pleaded guilty earlier today, media coverage noted that investigators had found over 675,000 credit card numbers (“access devices”) on his computers or in his email accounts at the time his home was searched in June 2009. Reportedly, 359,661 of the 676,443 card numbers came from “Company One’s” customers. According to a…
Epsilon pledges to build ‘Fort Knox’ around breached system
Grant Gross reports: E-mail marketing giant Epsilon will build an industry-leading security system in response to a March 30 breach in which thieves gained access to the e-mail addresses and names of partner’s customers, the CEO of Epsilon’s parent company said Thursday. Epsilon had “very strong” security measures in place before the breach, but additional…
Software manufacturer Ashampoo hacked
Dear Ashampoo customer, We in the Ashampoo group take data privacy protection very seriously. Therefore we constantly strive to guarantee the maximum possible safety for our technical systems. Like many other companies we are targeted by organizations of hackers that try to break into IT systems in order to steal data. Unfortunately, one of our…