Call it a “hunch,” but I wouldn’t be surprised if this breach might belong on PHIprivacy.net. Associated Press reports: Authorities have recovered hundreds of pages of stolen personal information after pulling over a vehicle going 111 mph in a 65 mph zone near Farson in southwestern Wyoming. The Wyoming Highway Patrol says a trooper pulled the…
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Bank of the West notifies former job applicants of data security breach (update2)
If you applied for a job at Bank of the West prior to December 19, 2013, your personal information, including your Social Security number, driver’s license number, and date of birth, may be in the hands of a hacker. The bank isn’t certain whether personal information was acquired by unauthorized individuals who were able to…
South San Francisco Embassy Suites Hotel notifying guests of card breach (update2)
If you stayed at the San Francisco Airport- South San Francisco Embassy Suites Hotel in 2013, check your mail for a breach notification letter. It seems the hotel recently discovered that two computers at their front desk were compromised by skimmers during 2013 and guests’ names, card numbers, expiration dates, and CVV2 codes were captured….
What should Comcast have advised customers after breach?
So while I was offline, Comcast sent me a statement on Feb. 7 in response to repeated requests for a statement about a breach reported here on Feb. 5: “We’re aware of the situation and are aggressively investigating it,” a Comcast spokesman said. “We take our customers’ privacy and security very seriously and we currently…
Home Depot corporate employees charged with stealing co-workers’ personal info [updated]
Rachel Stockman reports: The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a security breach at Atlanta-based Home Depot’s corporate headquarters. According to a criminal complaint, three human resources employees were arrested after accessing employees’ confidential information and opening fraudulent credit cards. […] Home Depot has notified the affected employees and is offering free credit monitoring. Read more…
Target breach happened because of a basic network segmentation error
Following up on Brian Kreb’s report that attackers were able to get to Target’s payment card system after compromising the login credentials of HVAC contractor Fazio Mechanical Services,, Jaikumar Vijayan gets responses and comments from several experts on what appears to be Target’s failure to properly segment its network. You can read his article on Computerworld.