The Houston Chronicle reports that the Houston Zoo’s gift shop customers may be impacted by a vendor’s breach that also affected customers at the Detroit Zoo’s gift shop: Houston Zoo officials said on Thursday they discovered a “security breach” involving credit cards at their gift shops. A zoo spokeswoman said the breach was contained to two…
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Two US telecom companies to pay $3.5 million for data breach
Grant Gross reports: Two sister mobile and telecom service providers will pay a combined US$3.5 million after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission found that they were storing customers’ personal data on unprotected servers accessible over the Internet. TerraCom and YourTel America failed to adequately protect the personal information of more than 300,000 customers, the FCC…
OPM revises estimate on 2nd breach; new total is 21.5 million affected
OPM has issued an updated statement on its lousy infosecurity two recently detected breaches. It reads, in part: OPM recently discovered two cyber-security incidents that have impacted the data of Federal government employees, contractors, and others: In April 2015, OPM discovered that the personnel data of 4.2 million current and former Federal government employees had…
Theft of prescription bottles during riots results in breach notifications
There was a lot of media attention last month when Rite Aid disclosed that it was notifying customers whose prescriptions with personal and Rx information were stolen during the Baltimore riots in April. Flying somewhat lower under the media radar, however, was the fact that CVS similarly started notifying its customers later in June. The…
2015 Data Breach Legislation Six Month Review: Many Proposals, Few Changes
Bryan Thompson and Sean B. Hoar of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP provide a status on action – and much inaction on bills at the federal and state level: Congress has moved at a glacial pace in considering data security legislation this year, even as the fallout over major data breaches, including the OPM breach, turned…
Security breach at local hotels led to unauthorized charges on guests’ cards
Fox5 reports on a breach affecting hotel guests as three San Diego hotels. A copy of the hotels operator’s notification was submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office today. The breach occurred in September 2014 until discovery in March 2015: The operator of three San Diego hotels announced Wednesday that a security breach led to…