Back in December, Brian Krebs reported: Digital gift card retailer Gyft has forced a password reset for some of its users. The move comes in response to the theft of usernames and passwords from a subset of Gyft customers. Mountain View, Calif. based Gyft lets customers buy and use gift cards entirely from their mobile…
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TalkTalk call centre staff manacled over security breach
Kelly Fiveash reports: TalkTalk has turned three workers—based at a call centre provider in India—over to the police, as part of its ongoing investigation into the budget ISP’s security practices, following a major hack on its systems last year. The company added that—in light of the arrests—it was considering ending its partnership with the call centre Wipro,…
NCH Healthcare employee data potentially compromised (UPDATED)
ABC7 has confirmed that data on two of NCH Healthcare System‘s computers may have been breached at the Cerner Data Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The information contained on the computer servers includes a medical staff credentialing database and employee information – no patient data was compromised. Read more on ABC7. NCH operates two hospitals: NCH Baker Hospital…
OH: Community Mercy Health Partners notifies patients after vendor improperly discarded patient records (UPDATED)
There’s an update to the update below. The incident was reported to HHS as impacting Community 113,528 patients’ records. Original post: There’s an update to a breach reported previously on this site. From a statement on their site: Community Mercy Health Partners (CMHP) and its hospitals, Springfield Regional Medical Center and Mercy Memorial Hospital, are committed…
KR: Credit card firms ordered to compensate consumers for data leak
The Korea Herald reports the latest development in a massive data leak first reported at the end of 2013: A local court on Friday ordered three credit card-related companies, hit by a massive data leak in 2014, to give 100,000 won ($83) to each victim, a ruling that could set a precedent for other similar…
San Diego County employees’ details erroneously sent to Wells Fargo
Right before Christmas, the County of San Diego Benefits Division discovered that some employees’ personal information had been inadvertently shared with Wells Fargo. The problem arose when the county sent personal information of those employees enrolling in a Wells Fargo Health Savings Account. A programming error by the county’s service provider, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, resulted in the additional transmission…