After Minnesota-based CHS Inc. mailed PATR-1099 forms to its patrons in mid-November, they received a call from one recipient alerting them that both the name and Social Security Number was visible through the window in unhyphenated form. After investigating, CHS determined that SSN were exposed in at least some cases. In a letter to the…
Category: Business Sector
Customers of Sierra Madre gas station victims of ID theft
About 80 customers of a Sierra Madre gas station have had their identities stolen, and police sought more victims Thursday, officials said. The alleged identity thefts took place over the past month at EVG Quality Gas, at Baldwin Avenue and Sierra Madre Boulevard, Sierra Madre police Sgt. Joe Ortiz said. Read more on svgtribune.com
Attackers walk with 4.9 million customer records in Honda breach
Steve Ragan reports: Is Honda the latest victim of the Silverpop data breach? According to reports, American Honda Motor Company recently discovered that 2.2 million customers were impacted by a data breach exposing the Owner Link email list maintained by an outsourced vendor. In addition, a further 2.7 million records were lost when the My…
American Honda Motor Co – Customer Info Exposed
Rafal Los writes: Alright, so Honda’s web sites didn’t actually get hacked, but like McDonalds they are on the receiving end of a lump of coal in their stocking for Christmas. A post on Honda’s “Piloteers.org” website for Honda Pilot owners hints at a data breach at a vendor maintaining a mailing list for customer of My Acura…
(follow-up) Former Stens Corporation employee sentenced to probation for computer intrusion
Walter D. Puckett, 40, of Williamstown, Ky., was sentenced yesterday to three years of probation by U.S. District Chief Judge Richard L. Young after his guilty plea to computer intrusion. According to a press release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana, Puckett admitted that he accessed the computer system of…
MN: Texas man indicted for hacking into Digital River subsidiary’s computer network and stealing $274,000
A federal indictment unsealed yesterday alleges that a 35-year-old Texas man hacked into the computer network of an Eden Prairie business and stole approximately $274,000. The indictment, which was filed in Minneapolis on October 13, 2010, charges Jeremey Parker, of Houston, Texas, with one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer in furtherance of…