If you’ve recently been contacted by a debt collector, do you know if they’re on the up and up? National Credit Adjusters (NCA) receives consumer information on those who default on loans by retailers. In March, they started receiving reports from customers who reported being contacted by unauthorized third-party debt collectors. The personal information that may have been…
Craftsman Book’s Credit Card Files Hacked
Jeanne Price reports: An estimated 11,000 home improvement contractors and do-it-yourselfers who bought products from Craftsman-book.com can expect a data breach alert in their mailbox or email Inbox soon. “May 27, we discovered unauthorized activity on a website maintained by our company, Craftsman Book Company. On May 28 we sent a message recommending a change of your…
Rowan Companies notifies employees, vendors, and contractors of system intrusion
Rowan Companies in Houston, Texas reports that on May 13, they detected an intrusion into their system that contained employee and non-employee vendor and contractor personal information. According to their notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, they also received some reports of misuse of personal credit card, PayPal accounts, and bank account information. Although…
Istana website defacer fined $8,000
Elena Chong of The Straits Times reports: Singapore – A businessman who was fined $8,000 yesterday for hacking into the Istana website is the first to be convicted of carrying out a cyber attack on a government website here. Delson Moo Hiang Kng, 43, who runs an IT consultancy firm, admitted to one of three…
Walgreens notifies patients after employee stole info and gave it to third party
Walgreens is notifying some patients that their names, dates of birth, and Social Security Number (in the form of Medicare ID number) was apparently stolen by an employee at the Piedmont Avenue location in Atlanta, Georgia. The employee reportedly provided the information to a third party. The theft occurred between March 3 and April 14,…
CA: Accelerated Urgent Care doctor claims contractor took medical records from room
A doctor for Accelerated Urgent Care said that a contractor painting a room full of medical records removed the files and threw them away in a dumpster. The City of Bakersfield has removed the dumpster that contained hundreds of medical records from the parking lot of Bakersfield College. 23ABC found the medical records dumped inside a…