VOCM reports: There’s word of another privacy breach involving provincial government mail-outs, this time involving big game licence applications. The provincial government says it is aware of at least 15 instances where people who had applied for big game licences received their own application, and the application intended for another individual. There have also been…
Month: May 2015
China denies social security data spill
Sometimes a non-incident seems newsworthy. Today, I stumbled over this Xinhua report from April 23, responding to another report that I had never seen either, it seems: There has been no data breach of the social security network, a senior official said on Thursday following media reports. The personal information of tens of millions of…
For years, a Passport Agency contractor copied passport applicants’ data to create fake identities
Colby Itkowitz reports: A woman employed as a State Department contractor was indicted in Houston on Wednesday for an alleged identity theft scheme using personal information she stole while working at a passport office. The contractor, Chloe McClendon, and two other women were charged “with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and…
Two Men Who Breached Photobucket.com Indicted and Arrested on Conspiracy and Fraud Related Charges
Two men have been arrested after breaching the computer services of Colorado based Photobucket, a company that operates an image and video hosting website. Brandon Bourret, 39, of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Athanasios Andrianakis, 26, of Sunnyvale, California, were arrested on Friday, May 8. According to the indictment, beginning on July 12, 2012 and continuing…
Tampa Man Sentenced To Seven Years For Credit Card Fraud And Identity Theft
Ricardo Romero-Mesa (44, Tampa) was sentenced on Friday to seven years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered him to forfeit $13,423.79, which are the proceeds traceable to his criminal conduct. He pleaded guilty on January 15, 2015. According to court documents, in early…
WA: Mercer Island Police investigating case of high school hacking
David Ham reports: Detectives are investigating allegations that a 17-year-old student at Mercer Island High School hacked into the school’s online record-keeping system to change his own grades. According to court documents, a teacher reported to the school administration that she’d noticed odd activity on her school teacher account and then noticed one particular student’s…