Business Post reports: Mobile phone company Three suffered a data protection breach today that saw dozens of its business customers’ billing data exposed. The Sunday Business Post understand the breach occurred when the businesses in question requested additional copies of their bills, which were subsequently sent to the wrong addresses. Read more on Business Post.
Category: Business Sector
Steam Users Hit by Christmas Day Breach Finally Notified
Stephanie Mlot reports: Valve has apologized for a winter Steam Sale breach—more than two months after 34,000 users had personal information exposed to other shoppers. The target of a Christmas Day denial of service attack, the online shop was overwhelmed by 2,000 percent more traffic than usual. In an effort to counter the assault, a Valve partner…
More employee W-2 data breaches reported (update1)
Add AmeriPride and Actifio to the ever-growing list of companies whose employees’ W-2 info was snagged by criminals via phishing. If your company didn’t urgently re-train employees about this growing problem with phishing and business email compromises, do it now. Update 1: Add Evening Post Industries to the list of those whose employees fell for business email…
Nintendo Health Plan breach impacts 6,248 (Updated)
It’s all fun and games until you have to report a breach involving your health plan to HHS. Nintendo of America, Inc. notified HHS on February 26 of an incident impacting 6,248. The incident was coded as “Hacking/IT Incident” involving their Network Server, but still covers a lot of possibilities. [CORRECTION: It was not their…
Pharm-Olam notifies employees of W-2 information breach
It’s not clear from their notification how many employees were impacted and how the security incident occurred, but Pharm-Olam International started notifying employees by mail of a security incident that compromised their names, Social Security and income information: At Pharm-Olam International (the “Company”) we value you and respect the privacy of your information, which is…
UK: Morrisons denies liability as data leak case nears court for more than 100 Peterborough employees
The Peterborough Telegraph reports: Lawyers acting on behalf of several thousand Morrisons’ employees, including more than 100 from Peterborough, say they will “vigorously contest” the retailer’s assertion that it wasn’t to blame for a data leak which led to their personal details being posted on the internet. Bank, salary and National Insurance details of almost…