Dan Browning covers what sounds like a huge fraud ring prosecution: A world map splattered with red dots shows the reach of a massive identity-theft case that went to trial this week in federal court in Minneapolis. Jurors will hear testimony about what prosecutors describe as a sophisticated international conspiracy that stole and counterfeited thousands…
Month: February 2012
IN: AG Investigates Cardinal Fitness Dumped Documents
I love when local media report on breaches and the state then investigates. Here’s another example: Deputy Attorney General Chuck Taylor launched an investigation after a Dumpster containing credit card numbers and receipts was found sitting outside a closed Indianapolis fitness center. Viewers first contacted RTV6 when the discarded personal information was found outside of…
UK: Children’s centre loses sensitive family details
From This is North Devon: Sensitive personal data on a number of vulnerable families who use a specialist children’s centre in North Devon has been stolen. The confidential information on 45 families was on a USB computer data stick. It was lost when a member of staff at the Victoria House Children’s Centre in Barnstaple,…
MA: Hospital investigating how patient papers got lost
John Zaremba reports: St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center is scrambling to figure out how files containing patient information wound up on the ground outside a Charlestown office complex, miles from the hospital’s Brighton campus. An employee of Roadrunner Moving and Storage found the paperwork Friday outside the company’s Terminal Drive offices, near the landmark Schrafft center,…
UK: Contractor breach affected a number of councils’ employees
A leak previously noted on this blog may have affected a number of councils’ employees. Chris Murphy reports that Medway Council is the latest council to reveal its employees’ data have been exposed on the Internet. Council staff and bosses have been left fuming after sensitive personal information was leaked online – sparking a major…
Massive data leak from foxconn.com by @SwaggSec
content/images/gallery/random3/foxconn-hacked-swaggsec-pastebin-com_.png @SwaggSec has hacked and leaked a huge amount of information from .foxconn.com which works with high profile names such as intel, ibm and others. The leaked data contains alot of different stuff and will need some time to explore to get more firm results. as a result of the leak the have also released the…