PayChoice Suffers Another Data Breach
October 16, 2009 by admin
Filed under Breach Incidents, Financial Sector, Hack, Of Note, U.S.
Brian Krebs reports: Payroll services provider PayChoice took its Web-based service offline for the second time in a month on Wednesday in response to yet another data breach caused by hackers. Moorestown, N.J. based PayChoice, provides direct payroll processing services and licenses its online employee payroll management product to at least 240 other payroll processing [...]
Hackers Breach Payroll Giant, Target Customers
October 1, 2009 by admin
Filed under Breach Incidents, Financial Sector, Hack, Malware, Of Note, U.S.
Brian Krebs reports: Hackers last week apparently used stolen account information from a New Jersey company that provides online payroll services to target the firm’s customers in a scheme to steal passwords and other information. [...] Unlike typical so-called “phishing” scams — which are sent indiscriminately to large numbers of people in the hopes that [...]