The following is part of Relation Insurance’s disclosure notice, published February 13 on their site: What Happened? Relation Insurance Inc. (“Relation”) provides insurance brokerage services working with certain insurance providers, and we are issuing notice of a recent event that may impact the privacy of certain personal information. To date, Relation has not received any…
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PA: Rutter’s data breach impacted at least 70 Pennsylvania stores
Tom Nguyen reports: Rutter’s released a statement on their website Thursday saying numerous locations were victim to a data breach that allowed a third-party access to customers’ credit cards from Oct. 1, 2018 until May 29, 2019. At least 70 locations in Pennsylvania were compromised, one in West Virginia. You can find them here. Read more on ABC27.
Russian court fines Facebook $63,000 over data law breach – RIA
Reuters reports: A Russian court fined social media company Facebook 4 million roubles ($62,922) on Thursday for its failure to comply with a Russian data law, the RIA news agency reported. The Tagansky District Court in Moscow fined Facebook for its refusal to put its server holding data about Russian citizens on Russian territory, after…
Data breach exposes Altice employee, Optimum customer information
James T. Madore reports: A data breach at Altice USA Inc. has exposed the Social Security numbers, birth dates and other personal information of all 12,000 current employees as well as some former employees and a small number of customers, the company said. Altice, the provider of Optimum cable television and internet services, said in…
UK: RideLondon organisers apologise after data breach
BBC reports: Organisers of the RideLondon cycling event are “urgently looking into” a data breach involving potential participants’ personal details. It is unclear how many applicants have been affected by the issue which saw entrants receive other people’s ballot results. The events, due to be held in August, is open to 80,000 applications and last…
Estee Lauder Exposed 440 Million Records Online – Researchers
Jeremiah Fowler reports (typos are in the original): On January 30th I discovered a non-password protected database that contained a massive amount of records totaling 440,336,852. Upon further review I was able to see connections to New York based cosmetic company Estée Lauder. I could see audit logs that contained a large number of email addresses…