Lorene Yue reports: Usually, when passwords and personal information are exposed, it’s because someone hacked a company’s not-so-secure system. Motorola, however, managed to put people’s info at risk without such malfeasance when it failed to wipe the memory of a batch of refurbished Xooms. The tablets in question were sold by Woot.com between October and…
Month: February 2012
Follow-up: Man gets seven years in prison for Navy credit card scam
Here’s a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: Tim McGlone reports that the leader of a credit card skimming operation who enlisted an employee of McDonald’s on Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison. Read more on The Virginian-Pilot. Thanks to Information Privacy Professionals for…
Hungarian citizen who attempted to extort Marriott International into giving him a job sentenced to prison
As an update to a case previously mentioned on this blog, Dow Jones Newswire reports that Attila Nemeth has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort Marriott International into giving him a job by illegally acquiring their confidential propietary data. Nemeth, who arguably should be considered for a role in any reality…
SLC Police Department hack: hackers delete their own files after reiterating pledge not to expose residents’ personal info
Hacktivism raises all kinds of ethical issues. In an unusual move, hackers responsible for the hack of the Salt Lake City Police Department have deleted their copies of some of the files they had acquired from the PD’s web site. In announcing the hack on Tuesday, the hackers known as Kahuna and CabinCr3w indicated that…
Why Are We Only Finding Out About the VeriSign Security Breach Now?
Keith Wagstaff gives voice to the question many of us were asking yesterday, “Why Are We Only Finding Out About the VeriSign Security Breach Now?” Read his commentary on Time.
PA: Printing Company Accidentally Releases SSN’s In Derry Twp.
WGAL reports that Security Savings Systems of New Cumberland mailed 1099-G forms to taxpayers that exposed others’ Social Security numbers: On Tuesday, taxpayers in Derry Township received sheets of paper in the mail with the information of two taxpayers on it. These 1099-G forms list the amount of the person’s tax refund that they received…