Jeanne Price reports: An estimated 11,000 home improvement contractors and do-it-yourselfers who bought products from Craftsman-book.com can expect a data breach alert in their mailbox or email Inbox soon. “May 27, we discovered unauthorized activity on a website maintained by our company, Craftsman Book Company. On May 28 we sent a message recommending a change of your…
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U.Va. Email Accidentally Exposes Student Information
Associated Press reports: The University of Virginia says a law school administrator accidentally sent an email with the personal information of 155 students. Officials say the email sent earlier this week via a school mass mailing list included a spreadsheet that contained GPAs, class ranks and personal biographical information on students who are applying for…
Home Depot reports another insider breach
Home Depot seems to be having a rough year with dishonest employees. In February, this site reported that some employees had been charged with stealing co-workers’ personal information. Over 1200 were notified in California. Now Home Depot has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that between May 7 – May 21, an employee was…
Twenty south Florida residents charged In wire fraud scheme involving Verizon and AT&T customer data
Twenty individuals have been charged with varied counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. And from the description provided, it sounds like bad actors at Verizon and AT&T may have been part of the scheme, although I suppose it’s possible that they could have obtained account information some other way. According to the indictment, between…
Experian notifies consumers of a breach. Again.
Once again, Experian is notifying some consumers of a breach that resulted in their credit reports being accessed by criminals. The breach occurred on May 14. In this case, the client whose login credentials were compromised and used to access Experian’s database was the Bluegrass Community Federal Credit Union in Ashland, Kentucky. Experian and law enforcement…
IT pro gets 4 years in prison for sabotaging ex-employer’s system
Chris Kanaracus reports the follow-up to a case noted previously on this blog involving a disgruntled EnerVest employee: A former network engineer for oil and gas company EnerVest has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty in January to sabotaging the company’s systems badly enough to disrupt its business operations for a month….