Hannah Francis reports: The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission has apologised for a privacy breach after it left an unknown quantity of personal email addresses accessible online. The ACCC said the addresses of subscribers to its information alert services for the Recalls Australia, Product Safety Australia, SCAMwatch and ACCC Public Registers websites were “inadvertently made…
Hess warns customers that criminals tried to steal credit info at gas pumps
Eric Weiss reports: Hess said Friday that many of its South Florida gas stations have been targeted by thieves using “skimmer” devices to intercept customers’ credit and debit card information. The local gas stations where the illegal activity took place are in Stuart, Jensen Beach, West Palm Beach and Lake Worth. Read more on TCPalm,…
Message from CloudFare concerning Heartbleed (updated)
Email I received from CloudFare this morning: You’re protected from the Heartbleed vulnerability because you have CloudFlare turned on for your website. We fixed the flaw on March 31 for all CloudFlare customers, a week before it was publicly announced. Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160, http://www.openssl.org/) is a flaw in OpenSSL, encryption software used by the vast majority…
TN: Higher ed systems seek ID theft source
Nathan Baker reports: Tennessee’s two public higher education systems are trying to trace the source of a possible federal income tax scam resulting from the stolen identities of some of their employees. An email sent to faculty and staff in the Tennessee Board of Regents system said the college governing body was alerted to the…
University Urology in Knoxville notifies patients because employee gave their contact info to competitor (updated)
University Urology, P.C. in Knoxville, Tennessee posted this notice on their website yesterday: Knoxville, Tennessee – April 11, 2014. University Urology, P.C. has announced today that patient information containing patient names and addresses was provided to an outside provider not associated with University Urology, P.C. Further investigation revealed that in 2013 and early 2014, an administrative employee of…
OR: Employment applications found in Little Caesars Pizza dumpster in Salem
Tim Becker reports: A stack of applications that contained personal information was discovered in a dumpster outside a pizza store in Salem. A viewer contacted KOIN 6 News after finding applications for employment at a Little Caesars Pizza store in a dumpster behind the business. “Pretty good stack of them [he found],” said Marilyn Peterson whose…