Chris Dolmetsch reports: The ringleader of a hacking scheme that targeted EBay Inc.’s online ticket exchange StubHub was sentenced to as long as 12 years behind bars, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said. Vadim Polyakov, 32, was one of six men indicted in July 2014 on charges related to the ring, which stole personal…
Ca: SaskPower employee fired for ‘snooping’ on more than 4,000 employee files
Alexa Huffman reports: Snooping on personal staff data, including SIN numbers, salaries and spouse names, led to a SaskPower employee being fired in January. According to a report released in June by the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ron Kruzeniski, the employee inappropriately accessed 4,382 human resources files from current and former employees at the…
In 5-year period,162 security breaches impacted 7.6 million consumers in SC
Matthew Stevens reports: The South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs has released its Security Breach Report from January 2011 through December of 2015. Over that span, the agency acknowledge 162 breaches that impacted more than 7.6 million consumers in SC. The report found that the most breaches, 39, were related to the retail and food…
California Health Care Facility email gaffe results in notifications
California Health Care Facility, which is part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, is notifying an unspecified number of people that their names and Social Security numbers were erroneously emailed to an unauthorized recipient in an attached document on May 2. The erroneous email was subsequently deleted from the server.
UK ‘Serious Incident’: East Riding patients medical records lost by company paid to keep them safe
As reported in the Hull Daily Mail: Medical records for patients in the East Riding have been lost by a firm paid by health bosses to keep them safe in storage. East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has launched an investigation after discovering paper records had gone missing. […] She said: “The storage company commissioned to…
Trillian Blog and Forums Security Incident
Thanks to the reader who sent in a link to this announcement from Cerulean. Without comment (I think readers can guess what it would be) What happened? On July 4th, 2016, a security breach and data disclosure related to a single server that powered the now-retired blog and forums occurred. We became aware of the breach…