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About 79,000 MoneyGram customers are being notified that their personal information may have been accessed last month.
The company said that it had not been able to determine if any information was actually stolen, but the company was notifying customers that someone may have viewed their personal data.
The information involved did not include Social Security or driver’s license numbers. It did include the names, addresses, phone numbers — and in some cases — the bank account numbers of MoneyGram customers.
Affected customers are being offered one year’s subscription to a credit monitoring service.
Source: BusinessWeek
Written by MCruz on January 12th, 2007 with no comments.
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The Boston retailer, Life is Good has notified its customers that their personal information was accessed by hackers.
The company today disclosed a security breach in which hackers accessed a database containing 9,250 customers’ credit card numbers. The company said no other personal information, such as social security or driver’s license numbers or dates of birth were included in the database and that all affected customers have been notified.
Source: The Boston Globe Thanks for the tip, John!
Written by MCruz on September 20th, 2006 with no comments.
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Computer equipment containing customers’ Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers was stolen from an American Family Insurance agent’s office in Madison, WI.
It mailed letters to more than two-thousand customers alerting them to the theft at the office of an insurance agent.
It urges them to contact credit reporting agencies for information on identity theft protections.
The break-in was back in July. American Family spokesman Steve Witmer says it took the company a while to determine the contents of the missing computer and assess the risk.
Source: WBAY-TV
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Written by MCruz on September 13th, 2006 with no comments.
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Current and former account holders of the Circuit City credit card are being notified that their personal information was thrown out with the trash.
Chase Card Services said it mistakenly tossed out computer tapes with the personal information of Circuit City card holders. It said it believes the tapes, inside a locked box, were compacted, destroyed and buried in a landfill.
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Chase said it has begun notifying customers and is monitoring affected accounts and has not identified any misuse of personal information. A free, one-year credit monitoring service is being offered to individuals whose social security number was on the thrown out tapes.
Source: Reuters Kudos to Patricia for the tip!
Written by MCruz on September 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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AT&T’s Online store was hacked over the weekend. Customers who purchased DSL equipment from the online store in the past are exposed to identity theft. Among the data stolen were credit card information along with other personal data.
AT&T Inc. said the system was hacked into over the weekend. The data of “fewer than 19,000 customers” were affected, the company said.
AT&T said it shut down its online store selling the high-speed Internet access equipment and would pay for credit monitoring services for the people whose files were accessed. The San Antonio-based telephone company notified the major credit card companies whose customer accounts were affected.
AT&T is currently investigating the cause of the breach and who was responsible.
Source: Houston Chronicle
Written by MCruz on August 30th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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Laptops stolen from vehicles contained personal data belonging to Sovereign Bank customers. A bank spokesperson declines to comment on exactly how many customers were affected by the breach.
Sovereign Bank is warning thousands of customers that their personal data may have been stolen along with three managers’ laptops taken earlier this month in Massachusetts.
Bank officials said fewer than 1 percent of customers in the New England and Mid-Atlantic area may have been affected, the Standard-Times of New Bedford reported.
Source: The Boston Globe Thanks to Patricia for the tip!
Written by MCruz on August 29th, 2006 with no comments.
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