From the we-have-no-idea-what-happened dept.: If you used a payment card on padlocks4less.com, check your mail for a notification letter. It seems the FBI notified the Frank J. Martin Company that payment card data submitted between June 3 and August 26th may have been accessed without authorization, along with customers’ name, postal and email addresses, and…
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FBI Said to Recover Personal E-Mails From Hillary Clinton Server
Del Quentin Wilber reports: The FBI has recovered personal and work-related e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, according to a person familiar with the investigation. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s success at salvaging personal e-mails that Clinton said had been deleted raises the possibility…
UPDATE: OPM now says more than five million fingerprints compromised in breaches
Andrea Peterson reports: One of the scariest parts of the massive cybersecurity breaches at the Office of Personnel Management just got worse: The agency now says 5.6 million people’s fingerprints were stolen as part of the hacks. That’s more than five times the 1.1 million figure the agency had cited in earlier updates after the…
Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation patients notified after computer theft
Patients at Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation – Lawton are being notified that a computer containing limited health information was stolen from a locked office. Kindred learned of the theft on August 31, although it may have occurred as early as August 28. In a letter dated September 21, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer Kelly Priegnitz writes that…
VacationRentPayment notifies customers whose account application information was hacked
YapStone (VacationRentPayments) is notifying some property managers and others who use their service to receive vacation rental payments that personal information in their account applications was compromised by unauthorized persons. In a letter dated September 11, YapStone CEO Thomas J. Villante writes that email and postal address, Social Security number, driver’s license number, date of birth, and bank…
WI: Educators Credit Union ATMs hit by skimmers
Michael Burke reports: Educators Credit Union reported Tuesday that five of its ATM machines, including one at 3525 Rapids Drive in Racine, were hit by the growing credit and debit card fraud called skimming. ECU Security Director Angela Langdon said just over 600 of ECU’s 128,000 members had their financial information stolen. Read more on…