October 3, 2007

Security breach at Nature Conservancy

A hacker as managed to breach the security measures on the Nature Conservancy’s computers in the US, the hacker managed to find and copy the details of over 14,000 people, which included employees and their families.

Amazingly the organisation had stored on their databases names, addresses, birth dates and social security numbers of all employees that has work there during the past seven years. Along with this information the hacker was also able to gain access to the bank details too.

Should the worse happen, the organisation has offered to all of those affected a years free credit monitoring service with email alerts, and $25,000 identity theft insurance.

Source [SC Magazine]