MasterCard: The Largest Theft of Credit Card Numbers
MasterCard International announced that it is notifying its member financial institutions of a breach of payment card data, which potentially exposed more than 40 million cards of all brands to fraud, of which approximately 13.9 million are MasterCard-branded cards.
Kodak Company: Private Data Leakage
Criminals have got private data that contained names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and benefits information of 5,800 former Eastman Kodak Co. workers. Those records were on a password-protected laptop that was stolen from a consultant's locked car trunk. The laptop belonged to Hewitt Associates, a human resources consulting firm working with Kodak on the administration of its employee benefit plans.
Private Data Leakage from Swiss Bank Julius Baer
Swiss private bank Julius Baer Holding AG has confirmed the theft of highly confidential client data from one of its units in the Cayman Islands, Forbes reported.
DSW: The Impact of Information Leakage
Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro has asked a court to order shoe retailer Designer Shoe Warehouse (DSW) to individually notify each customer whose personal information may have been stolen recently from DSW computer files. Ohio is the first state to sue the retailer over one of the biggest security breaches of its kind in the nation.
Laptop with private data of 80K DOJ employees stolen
A laptop was stolen between May 7 and May 9 from Omega World Travel of Fairfax, Va., which is one of the largest travel companies in the Washington area and does extensive business with government agencies.
4 Million CitiFinancial Customers' Private Data Has Gone
CitiFinancial, the retail finance division of Citigroup, has lost backup tapes containing sensitive personal information of around 4 million American customers.
Industrial Espionage Has No Rules
Business community was shocked by the largest case of industrial espionage that involved several arrests of top executives at some of Israel's biggest companies, including the Yes satellite TV company, Mayer Cars & Trucks, the Pelephone Communications and Cellcom cellular networks. Israel and London police, FBI and Interpol suspects them of involvement in spying on competitors. A total of 18 people have been detained, including nine private investigators.
10K Stanford Students' Private Data Has Gone
In the result of IT-security breach someone has intruded into Stanford University network and compromised personal data of 10,000 people.
SEC Has Internal IT-security Problems
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has internal IT-security problems in dealing with critical financial information and accountancy practices. It is very important because SEC is responsible for auditing all this stuff that should prevent fraud and ensure financial accuracy in other companies.
