McAfee is yet to confirm with delegates to its recent Strategic Security Conference that their details were leaked in a bulk email, as reported on iTnews yesterday. […] In an interview on security podcast Risky Business, McAfee’s Asia Pacific President, Steve Redman, didn’t say if the security vendor will disclose the data breach to those whose…
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Code Blue: nurses’ details at risk
KIRO 7 investigated a report that 30-40 boxes containing personal information of nurses — “medical records, social security numbers, driver’s licenses, financial records, legal documents, bank records, W2s” — were being dumped in garbage cans of a local spice shop over the past few weeks: The files appear to belong to a company called Code…
Casino company breached the Data Protection Act
London Clubs International Limited (LCI), which operates 11 casinos throughout the UK, is improving data security following the theft of an unencrypted laptop containing the data of approximately 26,000 customers. Roy Ramm, on behalf of LCI, has signed an Undertaking after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found LCI in breach of the Data Protection Act….
McAfee sends out customer details in email
Security vendor McAfee has sent out a bulk email containing the contact details of over 1400 security professionals that attended its recent conference in Sydney. The email revealed demographic data collected during the registration process for the McAfee Strategic Security Summit, held in Sydney on Friday July 17, as well as the full contact details…
Man arrested in scam case
A fifth person has been arrested in connection with what police are calling the “Jamaican lottery scam” investigation, which already has seen four other Routt County residents federally indicted and arraigned. Dean Leslie Mowatt, 31, was booked into the Routt County Jail on Sunday and is suspected of theft, identity theft, criminal possession of a…
Toronto Hydro admits customer data breach
Toronto police have launched an investigation after as many as 179,000 Toronto Hydro customer account numbers were illegally accessed in the company’s e-billing system. Toronto Hydro says it contacted police early last week after detecting unusual activity in its electronic billing system. “We saw some unusual activity on our systems, and whenever there is more…