Employees and customers of Abbott Medical Optics in Santa Ana, California are being notified that their personal information was on backup tapes that were stolen. On December 29, locked metal boxes containing the backup tapes were stolen from AMO’s Milipitas facility in California. The company informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of the theft…
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Hacker Pleads Guilty to Infiltrating VOIP Networks And Reselling Services for Profit
The first individual ever charged with hacking into the networks of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) providers and reselling hacked VOIP services for a profit pleaded guilty yesterday, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, announced. Edwin Pena, 27, a Venezuelan citizen, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton to one count of conspiracy to…
MN: Identities of 27,000 Ceridian users at risk
The Associated Press reports: A hacker attack on a Bloomington payroll processing company has put 27,000 people at financial risk. Ceridian, in a letter to affected customers, says the hacker attacked its Internet payroll system Dec. 22 and Dec. 23, potentially revealing Social Security numbers, birth dates and bank accounts of employees working at 1,900…
NM: Credit theft sours winery experience
Ashley Meeks reports: It certainly wasn’t the wine or the bowtie pasta at St. Clair Winery & Bistro that left a bad taste in Bianca Villani’s mouth. It was the call from Visa, informing her that someone in Maryland was trying to put hundreds of dollars of purchases on her card and the cards of…
Possible vendor’s breach may explain some BlackHat attendees being spammed
The following is cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org: Earlier this week, PogoWasRight.org was contacted by an individual who reported that after attending BlackHat 2009, he recently started receiving spam at a unique e-mail address he had created specifically for Breach Security. After receiving spam, he contacted them to change the e-mail address to another unique e-mail address,…
P.F. Chang’s Bistro employee data on stolen hardware (update 3)
P.F. Chang’s Bistro has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on December 19, equipment was stolen that contained some current and former employees’ Social Security numbers and other information such as date of birth. The disclosure does not indicate where the equipment was stolen, but does indicate that the equipment was password protected…