Lowe’s is notifying some current and former vehicle drivers as well as employees who access and administer a driver file system that their personal information was exposed on the Internet for nine months. In their notification letter dated today, Scott Purvis, Vice President of Human Resources for Lowe’s writes: Lowe’s contracts with a third-party vendor to provide a…
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Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine students notified of breach by benefits administrator Hubbard-Bert
Hubbard-Bert is the benfits administrator for students at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. On April 24, they learned that spreadsheets containing personal information of some LECOM students was inadvertently exposed on the Internet due to a misconfiguration of a test server on April 14 (yes, a test server should not have live data for exactly…
Wayne County employees information part of Paytime breach
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…
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…