The drive was provided to the company by law enforcement as the result of a search warrant served on the former adviser. A former financial adviser at the company was found in possession of a thumb drive that contained details on 774,723 of the company’s customers. The server held names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers on roughly 1.3 million people, although the department said it has “no reason to believe that any information contained on the server has been used improperly or even accessed.” Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Triggered by suspicious activity, officials conducted an investigation in mid-May that led to the conclusion that a server at the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services had been hacked. The company received confirmation of at least some fraudulent use. The company said up to 2.6 million payment card numbers and expiration dates at Michaels stores and 400,000 at Aaron Brothers could have been obtained in the attack. Michaels Stores The point-of-sale systems at 54 Michaels and Aaron Brothers stores “were attacked by criminals using highly sophisticated malware” between May 2013 and January 2014. The breach is thought to have affected the majority of the company’s 145 million members, and many were asked to change their passwords as a result. Attackers compromised a “small number of employee log-in credentials” between late February and early March to gain access to the company’s network and, through it, compromised a database that contained customer names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. eBay The online retailer suffered one of the biggest data breaches yet reported by an online retailer. That breach appears to be one of the largest yet, but the exact extent of the problem has not yet been divulged by the company, so it’s difficult to quantify how big it actually was. Here are the top five data breaches of the first half of 2014, with an extra entry for eBay. this year that have been reported to regulators or covered by media outlets, a 21 percent increase over the same period last year. Security News – Data Breaches of year 2014 According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there have already been 395 data breaches in the U.S.
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