A press release from American Fidelity Assurance: American Fidelity recently learned of an incident that involves personal information of some of our Customers. The information did not include Social Security numbers. On February 15, 2016, debit card substantiation letters were mailed to some of our Customers. An error in the mailing process caused some of…
Category: Business Sector
UK: 6,000 staff join data breach lawsuit against Morrisons
Incident response is so important, and Morrison’s did not do a good job, as I’ve commented before. Now Tom Reeve reports: Nearly 6000 current and former staff of retail giant Morrisons have signed up to join a combined lawsuit against the company following a massive data breach two years ago. According to the law firm…
CoinWallet Bitcoin Trader Shuts Down Following Data Breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: CoinWallet, an online wallet service for Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies, announced over the weekend plans to shut down the service by May 1, 2016, following a data breach incident that occurred on April 6, 2016. The CoinWallet team said it identified the point of attack, blaming a recent service upgrade that added a new…
Kylie Jenner Lip Kit Website Glitch Personal Customer Info Exposed
TMZ reports: Kylie Jenner’s cosmetics site has a shaky foundation, because it’s been inadvertently exposing very personal customer information. Here’s the problem. When someone tried to log into the site, it would send them to an existing customer’s account, revealing names, email addresses, personal addresses, order history, etc. Every time a customer refreshed the site,…
Anonymous Hack Italian Job Portals, Leak Trove of Data
Waqas reports that Anonymous Italy – LulzSec ITA has hacked into the websites of Italian job portals and employment agencies leaking personal data of hundreds and thousands of employees and business owners for operation OpNessunDorma to protest against the new labour laws in the country. Hackread, who claims they verified that the data were a new leak, report: The data includes full names, emails,…
Whiting-Turner notifies employees of potential breach at vendor
A Whiting-Turner vendor seems to have had a breach, although the nature of the breach or numbers affected are not clear. From WT’s notification template: Whiting-Turner is writing to inform you of a recent event that may affect the security of your child’s personal information. We are providing this notice to provide you, the parent/guardian, with…