Things don’t always go better with Coke, it seems. Coca-Cola Refreshments (CCR) is notifying employees “and other individuals” that they discovered on December 10th that several laptops assigned to current and former CCR/CCE users had been stolen. The laptops contained personal information. The letter, signed by their CIO, Tom Miller, does not indicate when the…
Category: U.S.
Same day, different email attachment gaffe
And yet another email attachment gaffe to report today, this one involving Apex Systems, whose employee accidentally appended a spreadsheet with employees’ names, Social Security numbers, and salary information to an email sent on December 1. The mistake was discovered on December 24. The notification sent to Maryland’s Attorney General and affected employees does not…
EasyDraft notifies Bright Horizons Family Solutions customers of breach involving bank information
eCommerce payment processor EasyDraft is notifying Bright Horizons Family Solutions customers of a breach that started in October 2012 with a misconfigured server. The breach wasn’t discovered until January 2014, however, when Bright Horizons contacted EasyDraft to alert them to the problem. In their report to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, lawyers for EasyDraft write: We…
GA: Biomat USA Employee Sentenced For Identity Theft Charges
Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Bridgette Williams, aged 31, of Macon, Georgia, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge C. Ashley Royal on Thursday, January 23, 2014, to serve six (6) months imprisonment in a case of conspiracy to commit fraudulent claims, identity theft and…
FBI warns retailers to expect more credit card breaches
The FBI has warned U.S. retailers to prepare for more cyber attacks after discovering about 20 hacking cases in the past year that involved the same kind of malicious software used against Target Corp in the holiday shopping season. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation distributed a confidential, three-page report to retail companies last week…
MN: Former state employee convicted of identity theft
Emily Gurnon has an update on the case of a former Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry employee charged with stealing employees’ information: Roxanne K. DeFlorin, a former state staffer who had the personal information of hundreds of public employees at her home, was convicted Wednesday of identity theft by a Ramsey County jury. Representing…