Back in September, I noted that a burglary at Wounded Warrior Project’s Jacksonville headquarters may have compromised some employees’ information. WWP’s notification to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office is now available online, and so we now have some additional details: Information on the stolen laptops included employees’ names, addresses, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, dates…
Category: U.S.
FL: Broward man pleads guilty in massive identity theft (updated)
Wayne K. Roustan reports that a former employee of an unnamed North Miami law firm was involved in an ID theft/tax refund scheme: Rodney Saintfleur, 28, of West Park, plead to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government, one count of access device fraud, and one count of aggravated identity theft, prosecutors said. Evidence…
Pinnacle Foods Group LLC Reports Data Breach; Individuals in Multiple States Could Be Affected
A company that produces some of the most well-known food brand products issued a press release yesterday: Pinnacle Foods Group LLC, a producer, marketer and distributor of branded food products, today announced that the personal information of up to 1,818 individuals in up to 13 states plus Mexico may have been affected by a theft…
Documents + unattended vehicles = yes, again
Karen Dillon reports that mortgage loan documents from Pulaski Bank that included applicants’ tax returns and other sensitive information were stolen from an unattended vehicle in September. The documents had reportedly been stolen from a loan official’s car while it was parked at a gym. This type of breach is certainly not new… I’ve been covering…
Oak River Insurance notifies 2,700 after employee disclosed workers’ compensation claims information
Noah Buhayar of Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports another insurance company has suffered a breach: Oak River Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (A), asked clients to guard against identity theft after an employee released some of their personal information. The data are tied to about 2,700 workers’ compensation claimants who had spinal surgery…
Numbers from Nationwide Insurance breach dribble out (update7)
I wish companies would heed my advice and get the bad news out at all once instead of staying in the news cycle as each new revelation hits the media. We are starting to get numbers on the hack of Nationwide Insurance and Allied Insurance that I reported here on November 17: Georgia reports 28,467…