Thanks to Joe Howie of BeyondRecognition.net for alerting me to what appears to be a very long-running, inadequately remedied breach that has exposed – and may be continuing to expose – the Social Security numbers and other personal information of thousands of people. I am posting this with some hesitation, as the data may still…
Category: Of Note
Amendment to PA data breach notification statute passes, requires notification within 7 days of discovery
By a vote of 49-0, the Pennsylvania Senate passed Senate Bill 114, amending the state’s data breach notification law. Section 1. Section 3 of the act of December 22, 2005 (P.L.474, No.94), known as the Breach of Personal Information Notification Act, is amended by adding subsections to read: Section 3. Notification of breach. (a.1) Notification…
LivingSocial Hacked — More Than 50 Million Customer Names, Emails, Birthdates and Encrypted Passwords Accessed (Internal Memo)
Update: Double-WOW. Their breach notice is already up on the California Attorney General’s web site. According to their submission to the state, the breach occurred on April 5 and was discovered on April 12. Original post follows: Wow. AllThingsD.com is reporting: LivingSocial, the daily deals site owned in part by Amazon, has suffered a massive…
CA: Government data breached thousands of times in last decade, documents say
Jordan Press reports: The federal government has seen more than 3,000 data and privacy breaches over the past 10 years, breaches that have affected more than 725,350 Canadians, according to documents tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. The responses from departments, given to the New Democrats in response to an order paper question, also show that…
Schnucks discloses details of breach affecting 2.4M customers
Last month, Schnucks Markets, a multi-state chain of grocery markets, disclosed that customers at some of its stores had become victims of card fraud. I duly entered the reports in DataLossDB.org, but didn’t post anything on this blog. This past week, I emailed Schnucks to ask for some more details. They declined to answer any…
Vernon Township ordered to pay court costs after suing hapless recipients of employees’ SSN
Remember that ridiculous lawsuit by Vernon Township against individuals to whom it had accidentally released employees’ Social Security numbers? There’s an update. Jessica Masulli Reyes reports: The individuals who received the Social Security numbers of 119 Vernon employees were ordered by a judge to sign certification saying that the confidential information was deleted and not disseminated….