How curious…. Canadian Tire had told me that 2% of their customers’s cards had been misused as a result of the Heartland Payment Systems breach. Now another non-US entity mentions 2%. Have we gotten reports from any UK banks yet? Hundreds of debit and credit card customers in Bermuda have been dragged into one of…
Category: U.S.
Confidential LAPD misconduct files mistakenly posted on Internet
Joel Rubin reports: The Los Angeles Police Commission violated its own strict privacy policy — and perhaps state law — on Friday, releasing a confidential report on the Internet that contained the names of hundreds of officers accused of racial profiling and other misconduct. The blunder, which police officials attributed to a clerical error, marks…
WI: DOC Electric employees’ personal data auctioned off
The Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection has posted notice of a breach that occurred on January 15, 2009 when DOC Electric assets were auctioned off by M&I Bank and a local auction house. Apparently the computers and file cabinets contained personal information on DOC Electric employees who were employed from the start of the business…
Kohl’s Cashier Accused Of Customer Credit Card Fraud
Kohl’s is reimbursing two customers after learning an employee illegally used customer credit cards to buy gift cards. Source – CFNews
CA: Personal Info On 1,000s Of Kaiser Employees Stolen
CBS reports: Thousands of northern California Kaiser employees are being notified that their personal information including social security numbers was stolen from the company. Kaiser has set-up a Employee Security Support Line for the 29,500 employees whose information was stolen to handle the situation. A recorded message on the line says that the stolen information…
More Heartland Details Leak Out (And Some May Be Trying To Leak Back In)
Evan Schuman reports: Details surrounding the Heartland data breach continue to dribble out, with one respected payment systems newsletter reporting that the forensic investigators Heartland brought in were Cybertrust and Neohapsis. Heartland had tried keeping those names confidential, an effort that was succeeding prior to the Wednesday, Feb. 4 issue of The Nilson Report. That…