On December 9, Wackenhut Services Limited Liability Company notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a hard drive stolen in transit between the firm’s office in Iraq and the firm’s U.S. office contained personal information on past employees, including their first and last names, dates of birth and places of birth, passport numbers, last known…
Category: U.S.
Concur Technologies notifies 1,017 employees that stolen computer contained their personal info
A break-in and theft at Concur Technologies headquarters in Washington over the Thanksgiving weekend has resulted in the firm notifying 1,017 employees that their personal information – names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security Numbers – were stolen when the thieves stole computer equipment and software. According to a notification sent by ID Experts…
(follow-up) Genesco notification to NH available online
Genesco’s notification letter to the NH Attorney General’s Office is available online. Their press release announcing the breach had been posted previously on this site. The notification to the state does not add a tremendous amount of detail, but does note that the company first became aware of a problem when it was contacted by…
Silverpop’s response to media coverage of breaches
In response to recent news coverage indicating that breaches affecting McDonald’s, DeviantART customers (and possibly Walgreens customers?) were due to a breach at Silverpop, their CEO Bill Nussey responds on Silverpop’s blog: The forensic investigation into the cyber attack on our company and customers has yielded some valuable insights. First, we have confirmed that our…
(follow-up) FL Bus Driver Sentenced For Stealing Disabled Patrons’ Identities
As a follow-up to a case originally mentioned on this blog in October, News4Jax.com reports that Watreka Ligon has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for stealing the identities of disabled bus patrons. She has also been ordered to pay restitution. Ligon had been working for MV Transport, a contractor for Central Florida…
NYC: 15,000 Social security numbers stolen from state computers by subcontractor
Thousands of Social Security numbers have been stolen from the computers of a New York state agency. The Social Security Administration in New York City says that the Social Security numbers were stolen by a subcontractor who was working in Office of Temporary Disability Assistance making computer infrastructure upgrades. The administration says, while performing the upgrades,…