John Leyden has a follow-up on an e-mail hack The Register initially revealed in June and that I covered on this blog. Travelodge UK’s explanation doesn’t fully answer my questions, but here’s part of it: This enquiry has thoroughly examined our own IT infrastructures and databases and those belonging to our suppliers as well. The…
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UK: Thousands of tenants’ details, including 800 bank account numbers, found on memory stick left in a London pub
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Two London housing bodies breached the Data Protection Act after details relating to thousands of their tenants were discovered on an unencrypted memory stick left in a pub, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The memory stick was handed in to the police and safely retrieved at a later…
(Follow-up) Kaiser employee ID theft suspect pleads no contest
C. Johnson reports: A benefits clerk, who was busted while about to undergo liposuction surgery using fraudulently-obtained credit card information from one of her victims, has pleaded no contest to identity theft. The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office says Mia Garza, 31, was accused of stealing personal identification information from more than 400 Kaiser Permanente…
MI: LCC Customers At Risk After Security Breach (updated)
A small news item seen on WILX (typos in the original): A heads-up for LCC dental and vision plan customers—- check your bank records— there’s a possibility hackers may have your personal information. The possibility security breach with Assurecar Risk Management also affects former participants and family members who were on the plan. Hackers were not…
Missing Morgan Stanley Data: Who’s to Blame?
I saw this one coming after seeing all of the headlines blaming Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for the loss of two CDs with client data. I think a lot of people interpreted Credit.com’s original reporting on the breach to mean that the CDs arrived at the state offices. But their reporting was actually a bit…
FedEx subsidiary notifies employees that the ADP/Workscape breach exposed their Social Security Numbers and direct deposit account information
FedEx Smartpost (FXG), a subsidiary of FedEx Ground Package System, was affected by the ADP/Workscape breach reported a few weeks. At the time, ADP had indicated that the intrusion affecting Workscape only affected one client as far as they knew. FXG appears to be that client. According to a letter sent by FXG’s lawyers to…