If call center for the CHS breach is overloaded, and the company acknowledges it has been, remember that you can sign up for the free credit monitoring offer on their web site via Kroll, here. That won’t help you get answers to any questions you may have about what information of yours was involved, but…
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Class Action Suit Filed Against Home Depot For Consumer Data Security Breach (press release)
Healthcare.gov Hacked in July — DHHS Discovers Attack Only Last Week
Jillian Kay Melchior reports: Healthcare.gov was hacked in July, the Wall Street Journal reported this afternoon– but the Department of Health and Human Services learned of the attack only last week: A hacker broke into part of the HealthCare.gov insurance enrollment website in July and uploaded malicious software, according to federal officials. Investigators found no evidence that consumers’…
Judge revokes US citizenship of woman possibly involved in data security breach
Well, this is a bit different. Andrew Becker has an intriguing side note to a breach involving the Arizona Counter Terrorism Center that he previously reported with ProPublica: A federal judge in Arizona has ordered the U.S. government to revoke the citizenship of a woman at the center of a 2007 security breach involving a…
Update: Goodwill POS malware breach impacted 868,000 credit and debit cards
Max Smolaks reports: US charity Goodwill Industries International has announced the results of a six week long investigation into a suspected data breach, admitting that around 868,000 customer credit and debit cards have been compromised. Read more on TechWeek Europe.
Computers for Hire Said to Send JPMorgan Data to Russia
Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley report: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)’s own investigators have found clues that a global network of computers available for hire by sophisticated criminals was used to reroute data stolen from the bank to a major Russian city, according to people familiar with the probe. Like street magicians using sleight of…