Gene Ryan Briones reports: Following the hapless security infraction that LinkedIn experienced two months ago, the company is now saying that it has spent a huge amount of money to fix the problem. Fresh from its earnings call today, LinkedIn CFO Steve Sordello said that the company has spent between $500,000 and $1 million on…
Boston Water and Sewer Commission warns of possible customer info leak
WCVB reports: Boston Water and Sewer Commission officials said customer information could have been leaked due to a missing hard drive. Officials said contractor Aclara Technologies notified them that a hard drive that could contain the Commission’s water and sewer account information is missing. Aclara was using the information to update the Commission’s remote meter…
SC: Tax Preparer Tosses Sensitive Record in Dumpster
Graeme Moore reports: A tax preparer who closed her business three years ago tossed several boxes of old records, some of which contained sensitive personal information. The records were found Thursday morning in a recycling bin off Fernwood-Glendale Road behind the old Ingles supermarket in Spartanburg. While most of the documents were just invoices, investigators…
Winn-Dixie sued by former employee following third-party data breach
A potential class action lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida made me aware of a data breach that I don’t recall seeing in the media. Patrick A. Burrows has filed the lawsuit against Purchasing Power, LLC and Winn-Dixie. According to the complaint, Winn-Dixie shares employee data with Purchasing Power, LLC to administer an employee…
Australian & New Zealand Based Sites Hacked, Data Leaked
Over the past few weeks we have seen a fairly new anonymous based operation take place. As a result we have seen many government based websites defaced and even data from well known ISP AAPT leaked, Apart from the attacks by anonymous for this operation there has been a few other attacks that have all…
Wisconsin Department of Revenue Inadvertently Posts Home Sellers’ Social Security Numbers Online
Janine Anderson reports: Personal, confidential information from more than 110,000 people who sold homes in 2011 was hidden inside a Wisconsin Department of Revenue report used by real estate and appraisal organizations. The DOR has ask those organizations to destroy and replace the report, which was posted online for download from April 5 to July…