Building materials supplier Lehigh Hanson notified the New Hampshire Attorney General on December 8th of a breach involving employee payroll data. The breach began with a former employee downloading data to take with him to a new employer. The downloaded data, however, turned out to be more than just the forms and templates the employee…
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Malware blamed in latest SAIC breach
Science Applications International Corporation (“SAIC”), recipient of a number of large government contracts, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General on December 9th of a security breach involving malware. The specific malware was not named, but was described as “designed to provide backdoor access.” The breach was detected on October 28th. In its letter to an…
Over 2,220 North Pacific Group employees affected by stolen computers
A burglary at the Portland, Oregon offices of North Pacific Group over the recent Thanksgiving weekend resulted in the theft of several laptops and other computer equipment. As described in a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General dated December 23l, two of the stolen computers: … stored files containing names, addresses, Social Security numbers,…