Raphael Satter of AP reports: The young hacker was told in no uncertain terms: You are safe with me. “I am not trying to find out your true identity,” AP journalist Norm Weatherill assured the teenager in an online chat. “As a member of the Press, I would rather not know who you are as…
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NYS Tax Department: 65 companies have been victimized by tax scams
WHEC reports: The state Tax Department is warning companies and workers after it says 65 companies with New York employees have been victimized by tax scams. As a result, 7,100 Social Security numbers across the state have been compromised, the department says. Read more on WHEC.
Samsung Leaking Customer Info, Tells Customer to Take It Up with the Shipper?!
From the add-this-to-the-list-of-concerns-about-Samsung dept. Matt Metzger writes: About four months ago, I ordered a new TV directly from Samsung’s online store. A few days later, I received a tracking link via email. http://www.agsystems.com/listhawb.asp?searchtype=hawb&searchvalue=1138977 Reusing Tracking Numbers When I first received the link, it showed an order that wasn’t my own. I assumed there was some sort of…
Fourth Circuit To Plaintiffs: “Could” Isn’t Enough For Standing
Matthew J. Siegel of Cozen O’Connor writes: A split continued to develop in the federal courts last month as the Fourth Circuit denied Article III standing to the plaintiffs in a data breach case whose alleged injuries were limited to the increased risk of future identity theft and the cost of measures to protect against…
More reports of false tax returns in wake of W-2 phishing scams
One of the many companies who became victims of W-2 phishing this year is Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group, a property and casualty insurance firm with headquarters in Virginia. DataBreaches.net became aware of their incident when contacted by a former employee. According to BMAG’s notification to employees dated March 10, they had no then-current evidence of any misuse of employees’…
Summit Reinsurance issues notice of breach discovered in August
Regular readers will realize that I’ve been reporting on the Summit Reinsurance breach since it first appeared in a covered entity’s disclosure back in November. Since then, I’ve been compiling and/or reporting on other entities affected by the ransomware attack that they discovered August 8, 2016. So seven months after discovery, they are first issuing a public…