Adam Greenberg reports: California-based Community Technology Alliance (CTA) is notifying more than a thousand individuals that their personal information – including Social Security numbers – was on an unencrypted, password protected laptop that was stolen. How many victims? 1,177, Jen Padgett, CEO of CTA, told SCMagazine.com in a Friday email correspondence. What type of personal information? Names and Social…
UK: Housing association publishes thousands of tenants’ private details in online data breach
Max Salisbury reports: A Midlands-based housing association has been slammed after it somehow managed to publish the private and intimate details of thousands of its tenants online. South Staffordshire Housing Association (SSHA) published residents’ names, telephone numbers, addresses, family affairs and health details on the ‘Contact Us’ page of its website. Though the private data…
Yahoo Says No Data Stolen in Shellshock Hack
Chris Strohm reports: Yahoo! Inc.’s computer servers were breached by hackers exploiting the Shellshock security hole, although no user data was compromised, the company said in a statement. “Last night, we isolated a handful of our impacted servers and at this time we have no evidence of a compromise to user data,” according to the…
Five indicted in Saks Fifth Avenue customer info theft scheme
Following up on a previously noted breach, five people have been indicted in the acquisition and misuse of nearly two dozen Saks Fifth Avenue customers’ information.
IE: Credit Union private detectives fined €10,500 over data breach
More on the case noted earlier today on this blog, from Independent.ie: The directors of a private detective agency have been fined more than €10,000 for using “subterfuge” to illegally obtain the addresses of credit union clients in arrears. Private detectives posed as a VEC and hospital worker in order to obtain PPS numbers and…
Investigators accessed social welfare information and disclosed to credit unions
From RTÉ: Two directors of a private investigation company have admitted accessing social welfare information and disclosing it to a credit union. Margaret Stuart and Wendy Martin, both directors of MCK Rentals Ltd of Trafalgar Road in Greystones pleaded guilty at Bray District Court today to consenting, conniving or neglecting to stop alleged breaches of…