The Bangor Daily News reports: The Portland Jetport says it’s lost or misplaced a USB thumb drive containing personal information of 950 employees. The personal information includes names, addresses, dates of birth and social security numbers. Read more on BDN. The Portland Press Herald adds that the drive, which also includes the personal information of…
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Carbonite forces password reset after password reuse attack
Should a company force an entire user password reset proactively because some users’ credentials, obtained elsewhere, are being used to attempt to steal their data? Carbonite, a provider of online computer and server backup services, notified its more than 1.5 million individual and small business customers that they were forcing a password reset. The reset, announced…
In: Sec V techie held for data theft
Dwaipayan Ghosh reports: Kolkata: A BTech engineer working in a Sector V firm was arrested by the Bidhannagar cyber fraud wing for allegedly cheating on the US-based clients of another city-based IT company of lakhs. The accused — Akhilesh Shaw (31) — is a resident of Golpark’s Panchanantala and was arrested last Friday. The modus operandi…
Sour grapes? Santikos sues former San Antonio vendor in phone hacking case
Patrick Danner reports: Santikos Theaters Inc. is suing CBS Telephone & Data after the former vendor allegedly sought revenge for a canceled contract by hacking into the movie house’s computerized phone system and playing a message to callers saying the number was disconnected. San Antonio-based CBS is accused of hacking the entertainment company’s phones after…
Ca: 77K accounts of Financial Giant, State Farm, leaked due to DAC Group Hack
Ryan de Souza reports: DAC Group, a Toronto-based digital & content marketing agency has suffered a security breach on their server resulting in data theft of 93,000 customer accounts — In normal circumstances it would be just another security breach but what makes this breach exceptional is the 77,000 leaked accounts from Bloomington, Illinois-based State Farm,…
Ca: Empire Life notifies customers of data breach
I don’t understand: if they detected and responded to this phishing incident in November, 2015, why are they first issuing this statement now? June 17, 2016 (Toronto, Ontario) – The Empire Life Insurance Company (Empire Life) announced today that the company is responding to a data breach that may affect a number of its customers. On…