Cathy Locke reports that Edwin Ludwig IV, 34, a former inmate of the California Correctional Center in Susanville, has pleaded guilty to obtaining the personal information of other inmates to enable others to obtain fraudulent tax refunds. Read more on CPA Practice Advisor. A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office does not clearly indicate whether the…
Month: April 2015
IL: Former Miami-Dade prison guard sentenced to 3 years for stolen identity refund fraud using inmates’ information
A former Miami Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation prison guard was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Norgle for his role in a scheme involving theft of prison inmates’ identities which were used to file false tax returns. Cornelius Crumity pleaded guilty in May, 2014 to one…
Russian Hackers Read Obama’s Unclassified Emails, Officials Say
Michael S. Schmidt and David E. Sanger report: Some of President Obama’s email correspondence was swept up by Russian hackers last year in a breach of the White House’s unclassified computer system that was far more intrusive and worrisome than has been publicly acknowledged, according to senior American officials briefed on the investigation. Read more on…
Vulnerability in Magento platform put online shoppers’ data at risk for years – researchers
Priya Anand reports: Criminals are exploiting a vulnerability in about 87,000 e-commerce websites that puts information including customers’ stored credit-card data at risk. The online shopping websites were susceptible to a chain of weaknesses on the platform Magento, which runs on about one-third of online shops, as of Friday morning, according to the Tel Aviv,…
Connecticut state law reveals huge extent of data privacy losses
Mackenzie Rigg reports that since a Connecticut law requiring breaches be reported to the Attorney General was enacted on Oct. 1, 2012, more than 1,100 reports have been made to Attorney General George Jepsen’s office, including 445 in 2013 and 447 in 2014. Read more on News Times about the types of breach reports the state has…
FL: Numerous skimming devices found on local gas pumps
Ari Hait reports that the Florida Department of Agriculture checked more than 6,000 gas stations across the state and found 81 skimmers attached to the pumps. Here’s a list of where they found them.