The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children joins the ranks of those who experience a mailing error that exposes vendors’ Form 1099 to others. The Form 1099 contained vendors’ names, addresses, monies earned, and Social Security numbers. In this case, some vendors received their own Form 1099 as well as a second…
Olmstead Medical Center breach update
KAAL-TV reports: It was reported to the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office that an employee at the Olmsted Medical Center in Byron had their tax information stolen and the IRS has already sent their tax return to someone else. The Rochester Police Department told us they’ve had about a dozen reports of this happening. This comes…
Indiana unemployment payments slowed by Target data breach
The Target breach is having some effects we might not normally anticipate. Stephen Dean reports that the bank that issues debit cards used for state unemployment benefits has been so tied up reissuing credit and debit cards from the Target breach that people waiting for unemployment debit cards have been delayed in receiving them. And…
Neiman Marcus Wants Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit Killed
idRADAR reports that (no surprise) Neiman Marcus has moved to dismiss a potential class action lawsuit stemming from its recently disclosed data breach. Unlike other lawsuits where lead plaintiffs haven’t even experienced any fraudulent use of their data, the plaintiff in this case had incurred fraudulent charges on her card – which she attributes to…
What is “Expedient” Notification of a “Data Breach?”
Craig Hoffman and Charlie Shih write: One of the first questions companies ask us when we are hired to help them respond to a new security incident is how fast they have to notify if the investigation shows that a “breach” occurred. Except for a couple of states that require notification to occur no later…
Hackers used previously unknown Internet Explorer flaw in new attacks
Joseph Menn reports: A previously unknown flaw in a recent version of Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer web browser is being used to attack Internet users, including some visitors to a major site for U.S. military veterans, researchers said Thursday. Security firm FireEye Inc discovered the attacks against IE 10 this week, saying that hundreds or…