Holli Deal Bragg reports: The last three of 13 federal defendants in a tax fraud and stolen identity scheme centered in Statesboro pleaded guilty last week. Porsche Pinkney, Tidaesha V. Taylor and Gregory F. Smith entered guilty pleas as they stood before United States District Court Judge B. Avant Edenfield in federal court in Statesboro,…
Month: August 2013
Birmingham Woman Sentenced for Role in Multi-State Identity Theft Conspiracy
A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham woman to more than six years in prison for her role in a multi-state identity-theft and counterfeit-check scheme that included recruiting homeless people to cash the fraudulent checks. Daphne Collette Tate, 42, pleaded guilty in April to conspiring with five other people to defraud more than two dozen…
Osprey Packs notifying customers after breach brought to its attention by a customer
Osprey Packs will begin mailing letters to Osprey Pro customers whose personal information was compromised in a recent attack of its online Pro Deals site. The breach, which occurred on July 9, exposed customers’ names, billing, shipping, and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers with expiration dates. Osprey Packs learned of the breach…
Midwest Supplies to send breach notification letters to online customers following hack (Update 2)
It seems that homebrewing supplier Midwest Supplies, LLC of Minnesota had a security breach on June 13 that they discovered on July 19. Letters should be going out within a few days to those affected. In a letter dated August 31 that has been submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office, David Kidd, President of…
UTHealth informs patients of incident related to patient information
The following notice was submitted by a reader: UT Physicians, the medical group practice of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School, announces that an unencrypted laptop computer containing some patient information was discovered missing on Aug. 2 from a locked closet in a UT Physicians orthopedic clinic. UT Physicians…
Hill AFB employee personal info improperly transmitted
Mitch Shaw reports: More than 500 Hill Air Force Base employees had sensitive personal information compromised after another base employee improperly transmitted the information to an unprotected email address. In early July, a base administrative employee was working with data that contained the names and Social Security numbers of hundreds of base employees. The employee,…