Once again, Experian is notifying some consumers of a breach that resulted in their credit reports being accessed by criminals. The breach occurred on May 14. In this case, the client whose login credentials were compromised and used to access Experian’s database was the Bluegrass Community Federal Credit Union in Ashland, Kentucky. Experian and law enforcement…
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Experian Lapse Allowed ID Theft Service Access to 200M Consumer Records – Krebs
Brian Krebs writes: In October 2013, KrebsOnSecurity published an exclusive story detailing how a Vietnamese man running an online identity theft service bought personal and financial records on Americans directly from a company owned by Experian, one of the three major U.S. credit bureaus. Today’s story looks deeper at the damage wrought in this colossal misstep by one…
PA: Supportive Concepts for Families notifies clients after personal information was exposed on Google for 10 months
Supportive Concepts for Families, Inc. in Reading, PA offers services for clients with mental health/intellectual developmental disabilities. A hardware upgrade in February 2013 left consumer information in an internal database exposed in Google with no login credentials required. They have posted a notice dated February 13, 2014 on their site, although it is not linked…
Experian reports another breach of its credit report database (update 2)
I haven’t been seeing as many breach reports by Experian this year, which could be a good sign, although it just could be that some states haven’t updated their breach lists in while. In any event, one just showed up on New Hampshire’s site that elevated an eyebrow. In a letter dated September 16 signed…
Experian defends security protocols while investigations into its data security grow
It seems that Experian is trying to defend its data security following Jordan Robertson’s report on dozens of breaches involving compromised client logins. Jordan’s report was based on dozens of breach reports compiled by DataLossDB.org and yours truly, who filed a complaint with the FTC about Experian’s breaches back in April. Pat Dulnier reports on Experian’s defense,…
What will Congress do now that it knows about numerous breaches involving Experian? And what will the FTC do?
Jordan Robertson of Bloomberg News provides media attention to a problem I’ve noted previously on this blog – that Experian suffers a lot of data breaches* where a client’s login is compromised and misused by unauthorized individuals. His coverage will hopefully inform national conversations about transparency, consumer protection, and breach notification. First is the issue…