Terrie Morgan-Besecker reports that employees of Wayne County, Pennsylvania have been notified of the Paytime, Inc. breach noted previously on this blog: Hackers breached Wayne County’s payroll processor, potentially gaining access to hundreds of government employees’ Social Security numbers, home addresses and bank account information. Chief Clerk Vicky Botjer confirmed the county was notified Tuesday…
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After data breach, Bitly enables 2-factor authentication
Joel Locsin reports: Following a data breach discovered last week, URL shortening service Bitly has enabled two-factor authentication to protect its account holders. In a blog post, Bitly chief technology officer Rob Platzer also said they traced the compromise to an unauthorized access to the account of one of the company’s employees. “We immediately enabled two-factor authentication…
New Zealand dentists hit by online privacy breach
Thomas Mead reports: Thousands of Kiwi dentists have been stung by a serious privacy breach which saw their private information published to the internet. The accidental release of names, phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and passwords affects members of the New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA). A 3news.co.nz investigation can reveal the private information may have…
Class action lawsuit filed against UPMC over data breach
Update: Ultimate Software Group has denied any responsibility for the UPMC breach and say they don’t think UPMC is even a client. Read more here. Original article: Bob Mayo reports: A class action lawsuit filed in federal court targets both the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and a payroll software company it uses called…
Solano County Dept. of Child Support Services letters lost by courier
The California Department of Child Support Services is notifying some individuals of an incident that occurred last month. From their notification letter: On April 7, 2014, several letters from the Solano County Department of Child Support Services were misplaced while in the custody of a contracted courier who was transporting mail to the US Post Office. Although…
MI: More than 10,000 student names, internal ID numbers accessible in data breach by GVSU vendor
Brian McVicar reports: Grand Valley State University says student social security numbers were not accessible last week when a university vendor accidentally posted online a list of names, addresses and internal id numbers of more than 10,000 students. The university discovered on Saturday, April 19, that the information was accessible on the website of Kent…