The Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. and its subsidiaries have notified an unspecified number of customers of a breach involving their credit card information. On September 24, 2013, the luxury travel firm learned that an unauthorized individual had gained access to seven corporate e-mail accounts between July 2013 and September 24. Customers’ names, payment card numbers, card…
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t?
Kevin G. Staker of StakerLaw Tax and Estate Planning Law Corporation is notifying clients that a backup drive with their Social Security numbers and assets information was stolen from his home in a burglary on December 20. The irony of the backup drive being in his home in case there was an office fire was not…
Capital One notifies account holders of insider breach associated with fraudulent charges
Capital One is notifying some credit card customers that they may be at risk of fraudulent charges on their card. In a letter sent to those affected, Douglas Woodward, Vice President of Operations, writes: We believe that a former employee may have improperly accessed your account. While we don’t see any potential fraud on your…
NJ: Barnabas Health notified patients after laptop with pediatric patients' pulmonary testing data was stolen from center
One of the breaches recently added to HHS’s public-facing breach tool was an incident involving Barnabas Health in New Jersey. In response to my e-mail and phone inquiries, today they sent me a link to a statement that was subsequently posted on their web site: IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PEDIATRIC SPECIALTY CENTER PATIENTS Posted Date: 12/18/2013…
Data breach cost $3.7m, claims report
Nic Rigby of the BBC reports on the cost to the U.S. of investigations involving U.K. hackers: Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, Suffolk, was arrested in October over charges which include allegations he hacked the US Department of Energy (DoE) computers. A report says personal information on 104,000 people could have been taken. It says dealing with…
Openssl.org Breached By @turkguvenligi
Today a hacker using the handle @turkguvenligi who has been around for some time now has announced a breach on the well known openssl.org website. The breach has left the site with a new main page, nothing special but enough to let the admins and users of the site know its been breached. At time…