Adam Greenberg reports: California-based Community Technology Alliance (CTA) is notifying more than a thousand individuals that their personal information – including Social Security numbers – was on an unencrypted, password protected laptop that was stolen. How many victims? 1,177, Jen Padgett, CEO of CTA, told SCMagazine.com in a Friday email correspondence. What type of personal information? Names and Social…
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Bay Area Bioscience Association (BayBio) notifies online customers of breach
The following notification template was submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office yesterday: Dear BayBio Customer, It has come to our attention that sometime within the past two weeks the security of our online payment system was breached. We believe an intruder inserted files that captured the keystrokes of our visitors and may have captured credit…
G.O.P. Error Reveals Donors and the Price of Access
Jonathan Weisman reports: In politics, it is sometimes better to be lucky than good. Republicans and Democrats, and groups sympathetic to each, spend millions on sophisticated technology to gain an advantage. They do it to exploit vulnerabilities and to make their own information secure. But sometimes, a simple coding mistake can lay bare documents and…
Man sentenced for using U. Hawaii Foundation money to pay gambling debt
The Star-Advertiser reports: A former University of Hawaii Foundation employee is not going to prison for using scholarship money to pay off a gambling debt. A federal judge sentenced Dodge Watson, 34, to three years’ probation Monday for forging the signatures of other foundation employees to get approval for a $2,000 scholarship check made payable…
NCQA spots – and stops – ecommerce breach quickly
How quickly can your organization detect and stop a breach? It looks like the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) caught one pretty quickly, as it only affected customers making online purchases on September 3 between 2 am and 10 am. They called those affected, and by September 5, were sending out letters to those…
Third-party vendor in Goodwill breach identified
idRADAR.com has uncovered an important detail in the Goodwill Industries breach – the identity of the third-party vendor. They report that it’s C&K Systems. Read more on idRADAR.com.