John Kass and William Lee report: Officials with insurance and financial services giant Nationwide are working with city and federal officials to learn how the retirement accounts of 91 municipal employees were breached earlier this month. Workers with Nationwide Retirement Solutions noticed “suspicious activity” with some 457 deferred compensation accounts for municipal employees similar to…
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Insurance agents in Virginia may have had personal data stolen
Kimberley Pierceall reports: If you sold insurance in Virginia but your license lapsed or expired between 1979 and 2004, a state agency suspects your personal information may have been stolen. Virginia’s State Corporation Commission says a former contractor for the agency may have copied insurance agent files that included names, Social Security numbers or driver’s…
There’s the Beef: Wendy’s Breach Numbers About to Get Much Meatier
Brian Krebs reports: When news broke last month that the credit card breach at fast food chain Wendy’s impacted fewer than 300 out of the company’s 5,800 locations, the response from many readers was, “Where’s the Breach?” Today, Wendy’s said the number of stores impacted by the breach is “significantly higher” and that the intrusion may not yet be contained. Read more…
MA: Saugus employees’ personal information released during discovery phase of Rivers lawsuit against town
Jeannette Hinkle reports: When attorney Elayne Alanis requested documents relating to the employment of Saugus’ former Information Technology Network Administrator James Rivers, she wasn’t expecting 48,960 pages. More upsetting than the overwhelming volume of documents, Alanis said, was the inclusion of 1,200 town employees’ Social Security numbers, tax documents and personal banking information. Read more…
LeakedSource uploads data set with 32,888,300 Twitter credentials
From LeakedSource: Twitter credentials are being traded in the tens of millions on the dark web. LeakedSource has obtained and added a copy of this data to its ever-growing searchable repository of leaked data. This data set was provided to us by a user who goes by the alias “[email protected]”, and has given us permission…
Former Agilent Technologies employee pleads guilty to damaging ex-employer’s computers
Kenneth Kezeor pleaded guilty Tuesday to intentionally damaging a protected computer by attacking a corporate computer application of his former employer. The plea was announced by United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. Kezeor, 47, of Felton, Calif., acknowledged he was hired by a Silicon Valley company…