Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOHN L. MONTANEZ, a police officer with the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to credit card fraud and identity theft offenses. MONTANEZ, who was arrested late May 2014, entered his plea today before…
Month: August 2014
ME: Data breach reported at Otto pizza in Portland
J. Craig Anderson reports: A data breach at Otto in Portland may have resulted in the theft of about 900 customers’ credit card numbers from the local restaurant chain’s two Portland locations, the company said Friday. Company officials said in a news release that authorities recently notified Otto that it suffered a “point-of-sale” attack that…
Hacker strikes Cumberland Valley computers; district and law enforcement accessing damage
David Wenner reports: A hacker gained access to the Cumberland Valley School District computer network on Thursday and the district has notified local police and the FBI as it tries to figure out if personal information was stolen. The district, which discovered the breach on Thursday, said it appears someone used the network only to…
Breach at USIS ‘affected’ at least 25,000 employees – DHS official
Jim Finkle has an update to the USIS hack reported earlier this month: A cyber attack at a company that performs background checks for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security compromised data of at least 25,000 government workers, an agency official told Reuters on Friday. The official said that DHS plans to notify approximately 25,000…
Two Fairfield Police Dept. officers under investigation for possible misuse of databases to check on potential dates
Jess Sullivan reports: A pair of veteran Fairfield police officers are under investigation for possible felony conduct relating to their trolling of personals dating websites while on duty and possibly using confidential law enforcement databases repeatedly to screen women they found appealing. The officers, Sgt. Stephen Ruiz and Detective Jacob Glashoff, had their desktop computers,…
ManagedMed reports patient scheduling data breach to California
ManagedMed Inc. (A Psychological Corporation), based in Los Angeles, recently notified the California Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving patient scheduling information. According to their July 17th letter to patients, submitted to the state on July 25, some patient scheduling information located in their computerized system had been viewed via an unsecured webpage by…