Jordan Greenberg, Vice President of Maple Grove Farms of Vermont writes: On November 16, 2013, B&G Foods North America, Inc. discovered that an unauthorized third party had earlier that day attacked the online e-commerce website associated with our Maple Grove Farms brand. We are sending you this letter as a cautionary measure because we believe…
Genesis Rehabilitation Services breach also affected patients
Back on October 29 and over on DataBreaches.net, I reported: Genesis Rehabilitation Services in Pennsylvania reports that an employee lost a thumb drive with the unencrypted personal information of 33 employees, agency employees, or applicants to GRS. The information on the drive included individuals’ names, postal or email addresses, and Social Security numbers. The drive had reportedly…
Pixel Federation Hacked, 38,000 User Credentials Leaked
Yet again a web based game community has become the victim of hackers who have breached its system and leaked 38,000 login credentials. The community and website is Pixel Federation (https://www.pixelfederation.com/) which was founded in 2007 and is based in Slovakia. The site is very popular amongst gamers in Europe who play mobile and web…
UK Council for Graduate Education Hacked, Defaced & 636 User Accounts Leaked UPDATE 1
update 1: appears the hacker has made a return to the website and left it with a new defacement titled LULZ.. #2. A hacker who uses the handle smitt3nz has leaked data from the UK Council for Graduate Education website (https://www.ukcge.ac.uk) after breaching it and leaving it defaced as well. The data leak which was…
TN: Bojangles fast food restaurant hacked, credit card info stolen (update 1)
Mike Krafcik reports that police in Newport, Tennessee are investigating a string of fraudulent credit and debit card charges that they say point back to a fast food restaurant, Bojangles. Police believe the restaurant’s Wi-Fi network may to be blame and the problem may not be isolated to just that one location: In a statement,…
Some UW Medicine patients feeling disgruntled by lack of offer of free credit monitoring
When there’s any doubt, patients may want you to provide free credit monitoring following a breach. And when you balance the costs of providing it vs. the patient dissatisfaction if you don’t, well….