Jessica Anderson provides this update on a previously reported breach: A man who stole personal data of thousands of Baltimore County employees while working as a information technology contract worker was identified Wednesday after being extradited from Florida. Baltimore County police said Courtney Calbert, 34, of Dundalk made off with employees’ banking information, Social Security numbers, and…
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Drip drip dripping it out …. Loyaltybuild
Expect more clients of Loyaltybuild to be named tomorrow as victims of the firm’s data breach. It appears that Loyaltybuild just discovered last night that even more companies were affected and needed to notify them first before releasing the information publicly.
Update: About 6,700 ESB customers affected by Loyaltybuild data breach
Loyaltybuild really needs to get ahead of the story instead of allowing the media to leak out each new part of its breach. Now we learn that the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) in Ireland was also impacted. The Irish Times reports: The personal information of about 6,700 ESB customers is now known to have been…
SuperValu revises estimate of number of their customers affected by breach while total number of customers climbs to 500,000
SuperValu has revised its assessment of the number of customers affected by a recent breach involving its vendor Loyaltybuild. It now reports that 62,500 customers may have been affected. The estimate for Axa Insurance customers now affected has also been increased to 8,000. The number is now up to 500,000 across Europe, as other Loyaltybuild…
Update: Baltimore County finds additional personal info on contents stolen from hard drive
An update to the breach reported in this blog entry. As if the breach wasn’t bad enough already, further investigation revealed: … individual checking and bank routing numbers were also stolen. Those particular files of 6,633 employees were also improperly copied from a County employee’s work computer on May 9, 2012. In a letter that…
GA: Personal info of Fulton Co. workers given out in mix-up
Aungelique Proctor reports: FOX 5 has learned a couple of hundred government employees could have had their Social Security numbers given out during open enrollment. Ammie Jones said she was startled when she saw total (sic) the names of strangers listed as the beneficiaries on her life insurance policy. “It was someone else’s name,” Jones…