Items Tagged with "breaches"
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Health Insurer Loses 1.5 Million Patient Records
November 19, 2009 from: hackyourself.net
The data, which was stored on a portable disk drive that disappeared from the insurer’s office, was unencrypted and included patient Social Security numbers, bank account numbers and health data. The disk also contained personal information on at least 5,000 physicians.
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Massive card processor breach in Spain affecting Europeans
November 18, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Back in October, this site reported that “tens of thousands” of Swedish banking customers and “tens of thousands” of Finnish banking customers had been affected by a breach in Spain that might involve a card payment processor.
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Senate Panel Clears Data Breach Bills
November 05, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved two companion bills that would require businesses and government agencies to notify individuals of security breaches involving sensitive personally identifiable information. Both bills go to the Senate for consideration.
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Former Wachovia employee convicted of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft
October 28, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Juan Rombado, a former Wachovia Bank employee, has been convicted of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from several schemes aimed at defrauding his employer through the theft of customer identities, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced. Indicted and arrested in August 2009, Rombado pleaded guilty to both counts before United States District Judge Vanessa Gilmore.
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A Host of Insecurities about Security
October 21, 2009 Added by:Sudha Nagaraj
Security concerns will continue to dominate the IT sphere for a while. Governments are crying hoarse to put in preventive measures, the security industry is struggling to make up for losses suffered in a recessionary environment, enterprises are growing paranoid about the ‘insider threat’ and the small and medium enterprises are waking up to the need for security management.
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FTC settles latest charges against ChoicePoint
October 19, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
ChoicePoint, Inc., one of the nation’s largest data brokers, has agreed to strengthened data security requirements to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the company failed to implement a comprehensive information security program protecting consumers’ sensitive information, as required by a previous court order. This failure left the door open to a data breach in 2008 that co...
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Retail sales associates sentenced for role in credit card, bank fraud
October 16, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Four men from Atlanta Georgia were sentenced this week by United States District Judge Orinda D. Evans on charges of bank fraud, credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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PayChoice Suffers Another Data Breach
October 16, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Payroll services provider PayChoice took its Web-based service offline for the second time in a month on Wednesday in response to yet another data breach caused by hackers.
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Lawsuit: 29,000 say Kaiser hid security breach
October 15, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Twenty-nine thousand Kaiser employees say the company did not inform them for more than a year about a security breach that left their personal information vulnerable to thieves. One employee says a woman stole her identity and used it to run up credit-card charges and “commit crimes across the country.”
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Scam hits more e-mail accounts, MS blocks accounts
October 06, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The scale of a phishing attack originally thought to be directed at Hotmail may be larger than previously thought. BBC News has seen a list of more than 20,000 more names and passwords that have been posted online.
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Bank Botnet Serves Fake Info to Thwart Researchers
October 06, 2009 from: hackyourself.net
Researchers tracking a gang of online bank thieves found that the criminals have deployed a devious means to thwart law enforcement and anyone else trying to monitor their activities.
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Confirmed: Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online
October 05, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
An anonymous user posted details of the accounts on October 1 at pastebin.com, a site commonly used by developers to share code snippets. The details have since been removed but Neowin has seen part of the list posted and can confirm the accounts are genuine and most appear to be based in Europe. The list details over 10,000 accounts starting from A through to B, suggesting there could be addition...
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Royal Bank glitch allowed Visa customers to view others’ transactions
October 03, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The Royal Bank says it has fixed a computer security glitch that allowed some of its West Coast Visa customers to view transactions made by other cardholders.
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Probe Targets Archives’ Handling of Data on 70 Million Vets
October 01, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration is investigating a potential data breach of tens of million of records about U.S. military veterans, after the agency sent a defective hard drive back to its vendor for repair and recycling without first destroying the data.
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Hackers Breach Payroll Giant, Target Customers
October 01, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Hackers last week apparently used stolen account information from a New Jersey company that provides online payroll services to target the firm’s customers in a scheme to steal passwords and other information.
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UNC security breach less severe than feared
September 30, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
A hacker who wormed into a UNC Chapel Hill computer server may not have gotten access to as much information as officials originally feared.