Today’s reminder is from a breach I came across in reviewing records obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act request I filed. American Medical Response is a billing/collections agency. In the course of business, they routinely access a database maintained by Acxiom Insight. Apparently, login credentials of an inactive employee were never properly…
Category: Business Sector
Court to Notify Customers Who Shopped at Schnucks with a Credit or Debit Card That They May Be Eligible for Payments from a Class Action Settlement
A notification program is underway, as approved by the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, to alert customers of Schnuck Markets, Inc. (“Schnucks”) that a Settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit about a security breach that occurred between December 9, 2012 and March 30, 2013. Read more on Kansas City Business Journal.
UK: Estate agent data breach leaves customers open to ID theft
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has taken action after a London estate agent continued to leave papers containing personal information on the street despite a previous warning. On 11 December 2013, the ICO was informed that an outlet owned by Thamesview Estate Agents was leaving papers containing personal information in…
OmegaNet reports breach affecting business clients
Last month, I noted that Dennis East International (DEI) was notifying customers after OmegaNet notified them of a breach. In the interim, OmegaNet, through its attorneys, has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that 10 businesses in New Hampshire were affected by a malware incident that was able to capture information before it was encrypted….
Global hacking attack hits four Hong Kong telecoms firms
Danny Lee reports: Four of the city’s biggest internet service providers fell victim to an international cyberattack that also affected 10,000 patients’ health records held by Chinese University. Servers at PCCW, Netvigator, Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) and Hutchison Global Communications were among more than half a million targeted globally. The hackers succeeded in the…
Florida Man Admits Leading Stolen Credit Card Trafficking Ring Involving More Than 114,000 Accounts And Losses Of $23 Million
A Florida man pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy to possess and traffic stolen credit card data held by New Jersey residents, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Miguel Gonzalez, 40, of Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas in Newark federal court to an information charging him with…