Jennifer LeClaire reports: The now infamous Target data Relevant Products/Services breach is still costing the company — and its shareholders — plenty. In fact, the retailing giant forecast the December 2013 incident cost shareholders $148 million. The company also lowered its full-year earnings forecast in the wake of the breach and its stock took a…
Category: U.S.
LA: Data Breach at University of Louisiana at Monroe impacts recent graduates
ULM [the University of Louisiana at Monroe] says they experienced a data security breach on Tuesday when a employee’s email account was accessed by an unauthorized individual. This security breach may have compromised the personal information of students who graduated from ULM in Fall 2013, and Spring 2014. The university says data security measures have been reinforced…
KPCB notifies employees and partners of laptop theft
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a venture capital firm located in Menlo, California. Over the weekend of July 19-20, their building and office security were circumvented and several laptops were stolen. Two of the laptops were used by personnel in their finance department and contained employees’ and partners’ names, contact information, Social Security numbers and…
UPS Store discovers malware intrusion; notifies customers at 51 franchise locations
From the uh-oh dept.: UPS Store, on behalf of 51 franchise center locations writes: We are writing to notify you of an incident that involves certain of your personal information. The UPS Store, Inc. (“The UPS Store”), among many other U.S. retailers, recently received a government bulletin regarding a broad-based malware intrusion targeting retailers in the United…
St. Louis housing complex manager admits stealing identities
Robert Patrick reports: The manager of the Clinton-Peabody Housing Complex here has admitted stealing the personal information of residents and using it file false tax returns, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. Marsha Harrington, 42, used tenants’ Social Security numbers and other personal information, filed false tax returns and kept the refunds, they said. Two…
CHS Hacked via Heartbleed Vulnerability
From TrustedSec: As many of you may have already been aware, a breach at Community Health Systems (CHS) affecting an estimated 4.5 million patients was recently revealed. TrustedSec obtained the first details on how the breach occured and new information relating to this breach. The initial attack vector was through the infamous OpenSSL “heartbleed” vulnerability…