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Experian reports yet another breach of its database via stolen or misused client login

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Dissent

No, it’s not one of the monster breaches that Brian Krebs reports on, but the kind of smaller breach I’ve been tabulating wherein Experian fails to adequately protect consumer credit reports from someone stealing or misusing a client’s login. In its most recent disclosure, dated November 8, Experian reported that individuals’ credit reports were accessed…

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Granite State College notifying employees after they were successfully phished

Posted on November 15, 2013December 12, 2024 by Dissent

Granite State College in New Hampshire is notifying three New Hampshire residents because an employee fell for a phishing scheme and some employee information, including compensation, was sent to a gmail account. You can read their notification here.

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Clarity Media Group notifies current and former employees that stolen laptop held unencrypted PII

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Dissent

Clarity Media Group is notifying some current and former employees and employees of subsidiaries or Freedom Communications (the previous owner of the Colorado Springs Gazette) that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and 401(k) balance may have been on a laptop stolen from a subsidiary’s employee. You can  read their notification here (pdf)

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Authorities investigating cybersecurity incidents targeting Obamacare website

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Dissent

The Chicago Tribune reports: U.S. authorities are investigating a series of cybersecurity incidents targeting the HealthCare.gov website at the center of President Obama’s healthcare law, a U.S. homeland security official told Congress on Wednesday. Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, said her department was aware of “about…

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Update: Former contract worker identified in theft of employee data in Maryland

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Dissent

Jessica Anderson provides this update on a previously reported breach: A man who stole personal data of thousands of Baltimore County employees while working as a information technology contract worker was identified Wednesday after being extradited from Florida. Baltimore County police said Courtney Calbert, 34, of Dundalk made off with employees’ banking information, Social Security numbers, and…

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MI: Tax preparer leaves clients’ tax records behind in foreclosed home, but so did Treasury agents sent in to clean it out

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Dissent

Okay, this is bad. Ken Kolker reports: Federal agents raided a tax preparer’s former home and seized abandoned documents from decades of returns, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers — but they didn’t get it all, Target 8 discovered on Wednesday. Target 8 found thousands of pages of tax documents in a burn barrel…

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