I’ve gotten used to seeing occasional reports from Experian that a client’s login was stolen or acquired by someone who used it to access credit reports on individuals, but an April 7 notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office is the first time I can recall seeing that type of report from Merlin Information…
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The Children’s Place breach due to compromise of their login credentials; CheetahMail not breached – spokesperson
When I saw a press release yesterday from The Children’s Place indicating that their unnamed email service provider had been hacked, I thought it was a reference to the Epsilon breach. It wasn’t. The Children’s Place is a customer of Experian’s Cheetahmail service. A notice from The Children’s Place on ebm.cheetahmail.com says: Dear Customer, Yesterday…
Experian catches ’em, but how do you prevent ’em?
I just read yet another breach report Experian filed with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. The sequence generally goes like this: Someone acquires the Experian login for one of Experian’s clients. The login is misused to access credit report and info on people. The breach is discovered. Login is changed. The individuals are notified…
Law firm’s credentials misused to access Experian database
Experian has a lot of clients and sometimes those clients’ login credentials fall into the wrong hands. That appears to be the case again. Experian notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on December 22nd that someone using the access login credentials of the law firm of Samuels, Green, and Steel, LLP had accessed an unspecified…
Magellan Health notifies employees whose personal data were exfiltrated in a ransomware attack
Magellan Health is notifying an undisclosed number of employees who information may have been exfiltrated in a ransomware attack. The attack began with a phishing attack on April 6 that impersonated a Magellan client. On April 11, Magellan discovered the breach, and called in Mandiant to investigate. Their investigation revealed that the attackers had exfiltrated…
Changes Coming to Credit Agencies Won’t Stop Hackers
Jordan Robertson of Bloomberg reports: The three big U.S. credit-reporting agencies have agreed to be more helpful. Errors in your credit history will now be easier to correct and delinquent medical bills will take longer to hurt your credit score. An agreement announced Monday between New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion will limit the…