Bruce Campion-Smith reports: In a serious breach of privacy, the RCMP accidentally sent details of a woman’s complaint of a sexual assault to a Toronto Star reporter. The woman’s note to the RCMP details an attack that happened decades ago but is potentially related to an ongoing police investigation. It was inadvertently forwarded to the…
Month: December 2014
Former Indiana resident sentenced in Puerto Rican ID theft ring
Justin L. Mack reports: A Mexican national with Indiana ties was sentenced Wednesday to more than six years in prison for running a Puerto Rican identity trafficking ring. Enrique Rogelio Mendez-Solis, 40, formerly of Seymour, was sentenced in U.S. District Court for his role in trafficking the identities and corresponding identity documents of Puerto Rican…
MO: Settlement reached over improper disposal of women's medical records
Garrett Haake has an update to a potential class action lawsuit filed in June over a breach in May: Attorneys representing more than 1,500 women whose personal medical information was compromised when their records were blown from a dumpster on a windy day in May have reached a settlement agreement with the medical group responsible. In the settlement…
Yet another Experian data breach
On November 20, Experian notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of yet another breach involving the compromise of a client’s login credentials to their credit report database. The credentials were misused to obtain identity information on an unspecified number of consumers’ Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and/or account numbers. In this case, the…
CORRECTED: Valve not hacked
CORRECTION and UPDATE: SLC Security, who originally claimed that Valve had been owned, has updated their post with the following statement: FRAUD ALERT: Domain’s (sic) posing as Valve Corp (Russian) UPDATE: We were contacted by the hosting provider Akamai and advised that the domain in the capture below is actually an imposter out of Russia….
Hackers Infiltrate Payment Systems of Major Parking Garage Operator
Mike Lennon reports additional details on a breach noted previously on this blog: SP+, a company that provides parking, maintenance and security services to property owners, said on Friday that an unauthorized attacker gained access to its payment processing systems and was able to access customer names and payment card information. The company said that…