Is there anyone left in South Korea who hasn’t had their information leaked by now? Sheesh. Yonhap News reports: Subcontracted employees were found to have taken some 350,000 pieces of private data belonging to customers from a local life insurance firm that hid the leak for months from authorities, the financial watchdog said Wednesday, just…
Category: Business Sector
LaCie Acknowledges Year-Long Data Breach
Jeff Goldman reports: LaCie USA recently began notifying an undisclosed number of customers that their personal information may have been exposed when an unauthorized person used malware to access transaction data from LaCie’s Web site. The FBI notified the company of the intrusion on March 19, 2014. “We have hired a leading forensic investigation firm, who…
Hess warns customers that criminals tried to steal credit info at gas pumps
Eric Weiss reports: Hess said Friday that many of its South Florida gas stations have been targeted by thieves using “skimmer” devices to intercept customers’ credit and debit card information. The local gas stations where the illegal activity took place are in Stuart, Jensen Beach, West Palm Beach and Lake Worth. Read more on TCPalm,…
OR: Employment applications found in Little Caesars Pizza dumpster in Salem
Tim Becker reports: A stack of applications that contained personal information was discovered in a dumpster outside a pizza store in Salem. A viewer contacted KOIN 6 News after finding applications for employment at a Little Caesars Pizza store in a dumpster behind the business. “Pretty good stack of them [he found],” said Marilyn Peterson whose…
Personal information of Amerigroup clients found in possession of suspect in Florida
According to KLTV, Amerigroup released the following statement yesterday: On February 13, 2014, Amerigroup was made aware that an IRS agent and the Tallahassee, Florida, Police department discovered documents containing protected health information (PHI) in screen prints from an Amerigroup claims system while searching the car of a suspect on January 30, 2014. The documents…
“Weev’s” conviction reversed on appeal
Wow. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit just reversed Andrew Auernheimer (“Weev”)’s conviction – not based on anything to do with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act issues that defense counsel had raised, but because the court determined that the case never should have been heard in New Jersey. Ars Technica and TechDirt have…