Feb 02, 12
Sequoia Hospital vendor posted 391 hospital employees' personal information online - A contractor working for Sequoia Hospital inadvertently posted the names and Social Security numbers of 391 current and former hospital employees on a...
Feb 02, 12
8,000 Social Security numbers, some credit card numbers were stored on public USM server - The University System of Maryland until recently had been storing information, including Social Security and some credit card numbers, of thousands of...
Jan 27, 12
New York State Electric & Gas and Rochester Gas and Electric Data breach exposes info on NY utility customers - Nearly 2 million customers of two NY based utility companies have had personal data compromised in a data breach. The New York State Public Service ...
Jan 23, 12
Computer Virus Infection at JAXA - On January 6, 2012, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) found that a computer terminal used by one of our employees was infected with a ...
Jan 23, 12
DreamHost hacked, mass password-reset issued - DreamHost detected access to one of their databases and took rapid action to protect customer accounts and passwords. It does not appear that any ...
Jan 16, 12
Zappos customer data accessed in security breach - Zappos is urging its customers to change their passwords after an intruder gained unauthorized access to the online shoe retailer's servers. Customers...
Jan 16, 12
Viruses stole City College of San Francisco data for years - For more than a decade, personal banking information and other data from perhaps tens of thousands of students, faculty and administrators at City ...
Jan 12, 12
Vermont Department of Taxes fully contains inadvertent disclosure of tax information - Vermont officials today acknowledged that they had accidentally displayed online the Social Security numbers or federal employee identification ...
Jan 11, 12
University of Victoria theft scores banking data on 11,000 employees - More than 11,000 current and former employees at the University of Victoria are being urged to contact their banks after personal information ...
Jan 11, 12
Security Breach alert to all Care2 members - Yesterday Care2 discovered that Care2.com servers were attacked, resulting in a security breach. The hackers were able to access login information for...
Jan 11, 12
Cattles Group Birstall headquarters loses personal details of 1.4m people - The names, addresses and payment histories of 600,000 clients of Welcome Financial Services Limited and Shopacheck were lost, along with the names and...
Jan 11, 12
New York City Public Advocate hacked and database dumped by anonymous - The Office of the New York City Public advocate was hacked and the entire database appears to have been dumped, including thousands of pages of highly...
Jan 11, 12
Virginia database with 639 Social Security numbers available to public for 10 years - The Virginia Department of General Services (DGS) said Friday that it "deeply regrets" confirming that personal information, including 639 Social ...
Dec 12, 11
Telstra customer database exposed - Detailed information about Telstra's customer accounts, including usernames and passwords, has been found to be sitting on the open web for anyone to ...
Dec 09, 11
Ultimate Bet Poker Data Leak Reveals Players' Account Info - In a breach of security at Ultimate Bet, information from every player's account had been publicly posted on the internet, revealing personal ...
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