A former Blackstone woman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with her role in a scheme to steal personal information from clients of her former employer. Jasmine Banks, 29, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit identity theft and access device fraud. U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin…
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WA: Mercer Island Police investigating case of high school hacking
David Ham reports: Detectives are investigating allegations that a 17-year-old student at Mercer Island High School hacked into the school’s online record-keeping system to change his own grades. According to court documents, a teacher reported to the school administration that she’d noticed odd activity on her school teacher account and then noticed one particular student’s…
UPDATE: Idaho Power says Mercer breach affected over 375,000
The Mercer Health & Benefits breach involving a backup tape lost in transit after being shipped by FedEx is one of those multi-client breaches that comes out in dribs and drabs. But if Mercer hoped to keep the total number affected under wraps, one of their clients may have spilled their beans. On August 12,…
Add Boise to those impacted by Mercer breach
The Associated Press reports that the names and personal information, including SSN, of about 300 current and former Boise city employees were on a backup computer tape lost by a courier used by Mercer to transport the tape to a storage facility in Washington.
Another entity named in Mercer breach
Add Idaho Power to the list of those affected by the Mercer breach previously reported on this site.
Marsh and Mercer report lost backup tape (update 2)
On June 23, insurance broker Marsh and Mercer notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that in April, a back up tape being transported by a third party courier between Marsh offices was lost. The tape contained employee benefits information such as names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and drivers’ license numbers, and…