Gur Megiddo reports a follow-up on an insider breach that occurred in 2014 and was previously covered here and here: A former Leumi Card employee convicted of stealing information from the credit card company’s database as a precursor to blackmail has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Eliran Rosnis admitted the charges against him…
Ca: Children’s aid families’ names posted online
Laurie Monsebraaten reports: Police are investigating an unprecedented security breach at a Brockville-area children’s aid society after an electronic file containing the names of 285 families involved with Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville was made available on Facebook. The breach was discovered Monday at 1:42 p.m. after both a client and a…
Alabama CVS’ patient information at risk after laptop stolen
Kelly Poe reports: A laptop that contained prescription and patient information on customers of a CVS Pharmacy in Calera has been stolen. CVS learned on March 22 that the password-protected laptop had been stolen from a vendor. The laptop contained information about customers who have had prescriptions filled at the CVS store at 8370 Highway 31…
My realtor’s email was hacked and I’m out $2M: exec’s suit
This is like the third case I can recall like this. Julia Marsh reports: A former Lehman Brothers executive unwittingly wired a $2 million deposit for a $20 million Manhattan apartment to cyber criminals — and now he’s blaming his real estate attorney and her vulnerable AOL email address for the breach. Robert Millard, who…
Ca: UPEI privacy breach leaks personal data of 700 people
Krystalle Ramlakhan reports: About 700 people who sought summer accommodations through the University of Prince Edward Island website had their personal information leaked in a privacy breach last month. Personal information from submissions dating back to October 2014 were posted to a upei.ca web page, and could be found through a general web search. Read more…
Yahoo’s FX broker YJFX updates on data breach incident
Maria Nikolova reports a follow-up to a previously reported incident involving YJFX: The analysis has shown that 185,626 pieces of information were taken out. 128,220 pieces of information were in a status in which public browsing was possible, but were not accessed. 56,665 pieces of information were accessed through search engine crawlers. 741 pieces of…