Dennis Schaal reports: An Expedia affiliate partner, Reservation Counter, has filed a lawsuit against Expedia Inc. alleging that the company stole Reservation Counter’s confidential search engine marketing data and provided it to a direct competitor, leading to the near-demise of Reservation Counter’s business. The lawsuit also alleges that Expedia covered up the breach rather than…
Category: Theft
CoxHealth says burglars stole data of 80 patients
Gene Hartley reports: CoxHealth says financial data of about 80 patients were stolen during a burglary at one of its clinics last week. The company this week sent letters to the patients and offered them free credit protection for one year. A CoxHealth representative said Wednesday that the burglary at its Primrose OB/GYN Clinic was…
15 computers with ‘sensitive information’ stolen from Chief Justice Mogoeng’s office
Nic Andersen reports: In our country at the moment, you blink once and there is another crisis. This evening, shocking details have emerged of a very suspicious break-in at the offices of Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. In the early hours of Saturday morning 15 computers were stolen, in South Africa that may sound normal to you, wait…
Stolen backup drive contained personal and health info of Local 693 members
Local 693 Plumbers, Pipefitters & HVACR Technicians has disclosed a breach to those enrolled in its benefit fund. The incident has also been reported to HHS. From its notification to members: We are writing to notify you that a device containing information regarding participants and beneficiaries of the Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 693 Benefit Funds (“Funds”),…
Did you hear the one about a Secret Service agent who left a laptop in her car?
From the I-Can’t-Even dept.: An unoccupied vehicle with Maryland plates was broken into and a bag with a laptop and other items belonging to a Secret Service agent was stolen, sources told CBS2. The break-in happened outside of the agent’s home in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, sources said. It’s not like there was anything important on…
MY: Hard disks, laptops stolen from Parti Cinta Sabah offices
Stephanie Lee reports: Hard disks and laptops containing important political information were stolen from Parti Cinta Sabah’s head office at the Nountun Industrial Estate near here. PCS president Datuk Seri Wilfred Bumburing’s corporate officer [sic] located on the second floor of the same building was also broken into. Read more on The Star.