Right before Christmas, the County of San Diego Benefits Division discovered that some employees’ personal information had been inadvertently shared with Wells Fargo. The problem arose when the county sent personal information of those employees enrolling in a Wells Fargo Health Savings Account. A programming error by the county’s service provider, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, resulted in the additional transmission…
NY: Newburgh manager orders city’s cloud data deleted because of ‘security breach’
I’m not sure I understand what’s gone on here, but MidHudson News reports: City Manager Michael Ciaravino’s decision to wipe out all of the data on Newburgh’s cloud has prompted Councilwoman Cindy Holmes to demand an investigation. Holmes noted that as a result of the manager’s decision, she lost her two years of city information…
Man Who Tried to Frame Brian Krebs In Heroin Plot Pleads Guilty to Cybercrime Charges
Brian Krebs writes: A Ukrainian man who tried to frame me for heroin possession has pleaded guilty to multiple cybercrime charges in U.S. federal court, including credit card theft and hacking into more than 13,000 computers. Sergey Vovnenko, 29, entered a guilty plea in Newark, New Jersey to charges of aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit…
Alleged Scotiabank privacy breach leads to class action
The Chronicle Herald reports: An Antigonish woman has filed a proposed class action against the Bank of Nova Scotia, alleging an employee illegally accessed her personal information and then distributed it to third parties. Linda Matthews Mont filed the action in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in September 2014, alleging that at some point before March…
Ga. Senator Proposes Bill On Public Data Breach Investigations
Johnny Kauffman reports: A bill filed in the Georgia Legislature by Sen. John Albers (R–Roswell) would mandate companies and state agencies provide details to the attorney general and the governor’s office and give authority to the attorney general’s office to conduct an investigation. The Republican’s bill (SB 276) is called the “Georgia Personal Data Security…
‘Dance Moms’ season 6 cast members hacked again
Janna Dela Cruz reported this last month, but I just came across it today, so with the proviso that I never even heard of this show: “Dance Moms” stars Abby Lee Miller, Maddie Ziegler and other cast members of the Lifetime series were reportedly hacked. TMZ has word that hackers were able to take control of the…