Follow-up to an incident originally covered on PogoWasRight.org: Prosecutors have cleared energy provider GS Caltex, two of its information managers and affiliate GS Nextation of allegations that they failed in their duty to protect personal information of more than 11 million customers. Five employees of GS Nextation, an insurance affiliate of GS Caltex, were prosecuted…
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PA: Identity Theft
A Cambria County man is behind bars after stealing credit card information from customers. 28-year old Charwan Wood worked as an employee at Inter-Media Market in Johnstown. Read more on WeAreCentralPA.com
NY: Personal info found littered on street
Eyewitness News made a stunning discovery on the streets of the Upper West Side Monday night. Scores of documents were found strewn on the street for anyone to pick up…. There were copies of bank statements, 401k statements, credit reports, tax returns and more driver’s licenses than we could count. […] The documents belonged to…
Monster Says Hackers May Have Stolen Data in Several Countries
Simon Thiel reports: Monster Worldwide Inc., the operator of the most-used jobs Web site, said hackers may have stolen confidential details of users in more than one country after the Times reported the data of 4.5 million U.K. users was accessed. Monster hasn’t established which countries were affected, Michelle Brown, a company spokeswoman in London,…
UK: Hackers steal details of 4.5 million in attack on Monster jobs site
Alexi Mostrous reports: The personal details of millions of job seekers have been stolen in the largest data protection theft in Britain, The Times has learned. Hackers gained access to confidential information provided by 4.5 million people to Monster.co.uk, the online recruitment site. Names, passwords, telephone numbers, email addresses, birth dates, sex and ethnicity data…
Monster.com Reports Theft of User Data
Deja vu all over again… Nancy Gohring of IDG News Service reports: Monster.com is advising its users to change their passwords after data including e-mail addresses, names and phone numbers were stolen from its database. The break-in comes just as the swelling ranks of the unemployed are turning to sites like Monster.com to look for…