Hair care product manufacturer and e-tailer Ouidad is notifying customers that they were recently alerted to a compromise of their customer database that occurred between June 30 and July 4. In a letter to those affected, they write: It appears the attackers obtained or viewed information about one or more transactions you completed at Ouidad.com…
Category: Hack
California State University at Sacramento employees are being notified of hack involving their SSN
Derek Shore reports: The personal information of nearly 2,000 Sacramento State employees may have been compromised after a computer system was breached. News of the August breach is just trickling out. It took the university about a month to figure out the scope of the breach and are only this week reaching out to affected…
U. of Arizona law school notifying over 9,000 former students and applicants whose SSN may have been accessed by hacker
You won’t find it on their home page, but if you dig into the U. of Arizona‘s web site, you’ll find this notice, posted today: Personal information of certain former law students and applicants to the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law may have been exposed after being stored on a server…
Breach at PR Newswire Tied to Adobe Hack
Brian Krebs reports: Earlier this year, hackers broke into the networks of marketing and press release distribution service PR Newswire, making off with usernames and encrypted passwords that customers use to access the company’s service and upload news releases, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The stolen data was found on the same Internet servers that housed huge troves of…
Insurer’s data breach lawsuit against Schnucks is terminated
E.B. Solomont reports that Liberty Mutual Insurance’s lawsuit against Schnuck’s has been dropped.
AU: Telco AAPT breached Privacy Act, Melbourne IT given all-clear
Michael Lee reports: Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has found AAPT to be in breach of the Privacy Act after it was hacked and failed to secure customer information. That information was held on Melbourne IT’s systems. At the time of the incident, Melbourne IT CEO Theo Hnarakis told ZDNet that “whether it’s current, whether it’s historic, it’s not…