Associated Press reports: More than 50 employees of the state Assembly — including some lawmakers — have been warned that their personal information might have been obtained by a computer hacker. Legislative Counsel Diane Boyer-Vine, whose office oversees the Legislative Data Center, would not say how many lawmakers were affected. She said Friday that officials…
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Bright House Networks notifies customers of breach
Steve Ragan learned of a data breach at Bright House Networks the hard way – by getting a breach disclosure notice as a customer. Steve describes the September 2011 letter: “Recently, we were made aware that an unauthorized source gained access to our servers and, as a result, historical customer data back to June 22,…
Damages From Hannaford Bros. Data Breach Dominate 1st Circuit Debate
Sheri Qualters writes: A debate about the damages available to some to 4.2 million customers of the Hannaford Brothers Co. supermarket company whose financial information was compromised during a data breach dominated an oral argument at the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Sept. 8 hearing in Anderson v. Hannaford Brothers Co. concerned the appeal of…
WI, TN: Up to 40,000 credit and debit cards exposed in data breach
Credit and debit cards used at Vacationland Vendors arcade games in Wisconsin Dells may be affected by a data breach. Vacationland Vendors, Inc., a supplier of arcade equipment and vending machines to businesses, announced Monday that up to 40,000 cards used at its Wisconsin Dells and Sevierville, Tenn., arcades may have been exposed, according to…
Security breach at Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation has mailed users of the Linux.com and LinuxFoundation.org sites informing them that they discovered a security breach on 8 September which “may have compromised your username, password, email address and other information”. The Foundation says that it believes the breach is connected to the security breach at kernel.org at the start of…
Florida sees explosion of tax fraud with data breaches fueling the crime
Elaine Silvestrini reports: Thousands of local homeowners who relied on a national alarm business to protect their homes from intruders became victims of identity theft perpetrated by at least one employee of another company that sold them the security system, police say. “I went to them for security and I felt violated,” said Marilyn Varriale,…