Dan Walker reports: A flash drive containing the personal information of thousands of City of Milwaukee workers was stolen along with the car of an employee of a health care firm that contracts with the city. The employee worked for Dynacare Laboratories, a contractor used by Froedtert Health Workforce Health in connection with the city’s…
Experian reports yet another breach of its database via stolen or misused client login
No, it’s not one of the monster breaches that Brian Krebs reports on, but the kind of smaller breach I’ve been tabulating wherein Experian fails to adequately protect consumer credit reports from someone stealing or misusing a client’s login. In its most recent disclosure, dated November 8, Experian reported that individuals’ credit reports were accessed…
Granite State College notifying employees after they were successfully phished
Granite State College in New Hampshire is notifying three New Hampshire residents because an employee fell for a phishing scheme and some employee information, including compensation, was sent to a gmail account. You can read their notification here.
Clarity Media Group notifies current and former employees that stolen laptop held unencrypted PII
Clarity Media Group is notifying some current and former employees and employees of subsidiaries or Freedom Communications (the previous owner of the Colorado Springs Gazette) that their personal information, including Social Security numbers and 401(k) balance may have been on a laptop stolen from a subsidiary’s employee. You can read their notification here (pdf)
Five other firms impacted by the Loyaltybuild breach
Conor Pope reports: Customers of a further eight companies including Clerys, Centra, Postbank and Pigsback have had their personal information stolen in the data breach at Co Clare-based company Loyaltybuild. Credit card information of customers of Clerys’ loyalty travel scheme as well as personal details including names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses are now know (sic) to have been stolen…
NZ: Christchurch transport card flaws expose identities, grant free bus rides
Darren Pauli reports: Kiwis could have their names, addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers exposed by flaws in the Christchurch public transport system that could also allow locals to travel on buses for free. The security flaws in the contactless bus ticketing system — some known to operator ECan since 2009 — allowed an…