Vic Lee writes: Customers in Menlo Park were shocked at what they found on the counters at the local post office — social security numbers and other personal information on a pad of scratch paper. It’s a story you’ll only see on ABC7 News. A postal service spokesperson tells us this could have been a…
Category: U.S.
Western Union dismisses threat of data security breach at PrivatBank
Christopher J. Miller reports: A regional head of the U.S.-based financial services and communications company Western Union said he is not worried about recent security breaches at Ukraine’s largest bank which allowed a hacker to obtain sensitive data of Western Union customers, potentially putting them at risk for fraud. Ulugbek Umarov, Western Union country director…
Keyloggers found on 10 Nordstrom registers in Florida (update1)
Ten registers in Nordstrom stores in Aventura Florida reportedly were tampered with and had keyloggers attached.Video footage from security revealed that the criminals worked in groups to distract and install the keyloggers between August 14 and October 5, when Nordstrom discovered the problem. Nordstrom believes that some customer data may have been compromised, but all…
Experian reports yet another breach of its database via stolen or misused client login
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…
Granite State College notifying employees after they were successfully phished
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.
Clarity Media Group notifies current and former employees that stolen laptop held unencrypted PII
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)