Osprey Packs will begin mailing letters to Osprey Pro customers whose personal information was compromised in a recent attack of its online Pro Deals site. The breach, which occurred on July 9, exposed customers’ names, billing, shipping, and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers with expiration dates. Osprey Packs learned of the breach…
Category: U.S.
Midwest Supplies to send breach notification letters to online customers following hack (Update 2)
It seems that homebrewing supplier Midwest Supplies, LLC of Minnesota had a security breach on June 13 that they discovered on July 19. Letters should be going out within a few days to those affected. In a letter dated August 31 that has been submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, David Kidd, President of…
Hill AFB employee personal info improperly transmitted
Mitch Shaw reports: More than 500 Hill Air Force Base employees had sensitive personal information compromised after another base employee improperly transmitted the information to an unprotected email address. In early July, a base administrative employee was working with data that contained the names and Social Security numbers of hundreds of base employees. The employee,…
Other recent breaches that flew under the media radar
State web sites that post breach reports often reveal breaches we didn’t learn about via media coverage. Here are five that I learned about in the past few days: Republic Services reported that a laptop stolen from an employee’s home contained current and former employees’ names and Social Security numbers. The theft occurred in Maricopa…
Symantec Dodges Norton Software User’s Data Breach Suit
Juan Carlos Rodriguez of Law360 reports that the plaintiff in Haskins v. Symantec didn’t fare well: A California federal judge on Friday tossed a proposed class action accusing Symantec Corp. of hiding a data breach in which hackers stole source code for its Norton anti-virus software, finding the complaint did not properly name all the products…
Payment processing services provider reportedly breached in January, details scarce
Discover and American Express often submit copies of their breach notification letters to cardmembers to state attorneys general. Their letters, however, generally do not include the name of a breached merchant, so it is often difficult to know what to make of their submissions. But one particular American Express notification, submitted to California last week, caught…