Sony Electronics notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office yesterday of a breach involving customer data at a third party service provider, TeleTech. According to the notification (pdf), TeleTech notified Sony that unauthorized copies of certain customers’ credit card information had been made and e-mailed to an account outside of TeleTech’s network. The total number…
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National Gypsum employees’ info on missing DVDs
Add National Gypsum to any list you may be keeping of entities who had data on the two unencrypted DVDs that went missing in the February when Towers Watson’s delivery system seemingly lost the DVDs. The company sent a notification (pdf) to its employees and the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office at the beginning of…
Stolen laptop contained Inovis employee data
As part of a merger, Invois of Alpharetta, Georgia provided GXS with some information on the company. On May 4, a laptop containing Inovis employee data was stolen from a GXS employee. Inovis wasn’t notified of the loss until May 21, however. The firm conducted its own investigation and required GXS to conduct one, too….
Quantum theft nabs employee data
As snarky as I can be at times about breaches that seem easily avoidable, there are some breaches where I can actually feel some sympathy for the breached entity. This is one of those times. On June 13, the Bellevue, Washington offices of Quantum Corporation were burgled. The thieves stole some laptop computers, one of…
Hacker jailed over complex web scam
UKPA reports: A young computer hacker who carried out a sophisticated and lucrative online fraud operation to feed his gambling habit has been jailed. Alistair Peckover, 21, bought a Porsche, expensive watches and more than £30,000 worth of gold bullion using the proceeds from his complex scam. Detectives said he systematically defrauded legitimate online businesses…
AT&T hit by another data breach
AT&T customers logging into their accounts to pre-order the Apple iPhone 4 reported that they were given access to the account information of other customers. Despite entering their own usernames and passwords, the AT&T system would take them to another user’s account, according to gadget blog Gizmodo, which broke the news. Some users said when…