Kim Trynacity reports: During what was sometimes a testy exchange with MLAs, the president of NorQuest College fended off a wide range of questions Tuesday about an alleged fraud and massive security breach at the college between 2008 and 2012. Appearing for the first time since the public learned about the incidents in September 2016, NorQuest…
Month: December 2016
DBS staff arrested over customer data leaks
Duan Ting reports: More than 20 DBS current and previous employees including directors in the direct sales team have been arrested over leaks of customers’ personal information to third parties for loan promotions. The arrests come after the case was investigated by the city’s graft-buster. According to the local media, customers’ private information was leaked…
Chicago Law Firm Accused of Lax Data Security in Lawsuit
Gabe Friedman reports: A federal judge on Friday unveiled a long sealed proposed class-action complaint that accused the law firm, Johnson & Bell, of failing to take adequate steps to protect the data on its servers. The case is currently proceeding in confidential arbitration and the complaint was filed in April by the plaintiff’s firm Edelson P.C. on behalf…
UK: KFC warns 1.2 million Colonel’s Club loyalty scheme members of data breach after website hacked
Richard Wheatstone reports: KFC has warned 1.2 million customers in its Colonel’s Club loyalty scheme that their data may have been breached in a hacking attack. The fast food giant e-mailed customers this afternoon advising them to change their passwords and take precautions over other online accounts. Read more on The Mirror.
Busted By U.S. Secret Service Agents, Little Saigon ID Thief Gets Punished
R. Scott Moxley reports: A brazen Orange County identity theft ring that stole more than $400,000 from two Vons grocery stores in 2015 before a U.S. Secret Service investigation resulted this week in a 75-month federal prison punishment for one of the conspirators. U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter allowed both federal prosecutors and 26-year-old…
Georgia Accuses Homeland Security Of Attempting To Hack State’s Election Database
From the we-re-from-the-government-and-we’re-here-to-help-you dept., Tyler Durden reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is anxiously wondering, as are we, why someone with a Department Of Homeland Security IP address would try to hack into his State’s voter registration database. Even though DHS offered cyber security help to states prior to the election, the Wall Street Journal notes…