A law firm that had filed notices of claim against MCCCD over its 2013 breach that exposed the information of almost 2.5 million current and former students, employees, and vendors, has now filed a class action lawsuit. On Monday, April 28, 2014, Gallagher & Kennedy filed a class action lawsuit in the Superior Court of…
Month: April 2014
MO: Public housing manager charged with identity theft for tax refund fraud
AP reports: The manager of a St. Louis public housing complex has been indicted on two felony charges for allegedly conspiring to steal Social Security numbers and other personal information from prospective tenants. Federal prosecutors say 42-year-old Marsha Harrington worked with co-defendants Calvin Shaw and Larry Corner to use the stolen information to file false tax returns. Harrington is manager of the Clinton-Peabody housing…
Tax Fraud Gang Targeted Healthcare Firms
Brian Krebs reports: Earlier this month, I wrote about an organized cybercrime gang that has been hacking into HR departments at organizations across the country and filing fraudulent tax refund requests with the IRS on employees of those victim firms. Today, we’ll look a bit closer at the activities of this crime gang, which appears to have targeted a…
4Chan hacked
Christopher Poole, aka “moot,” confirmed the attack on 4chan’s blog earlier today: Last week we were made aware of a software vulnerability that allowed an intruder access to administrative functions and information from one of our databases. The intruder later stated their motive was to expose the posting habits of a specific user they disliked….
Eircom urges email users to change passwords after security breach
Adrian Weckler reports: Eircom has suffered a security breach, leading to the suspension of email services to 350,000 Eircom.net accounts over the last 18 hours. The company is now urging its email users to change their passwords. A company spokesman said that the breach was detected on Tuesday. Read more on Independent.ie.
OR: Central City Concern admits some fault after clients’ data stolen
KOIN reports: The executive director of Central City Concern (CCC) admitted Tuesday more could have been done to protect personal information that a former employee is now accused of stealing as part of a scheme to file fake tax returns. “I think we should have done more at that point,” said CCC Executive Director Ed…