Neil MacLucas of Dow Jones Newswires reports: Switzerland has confirmed the arrest in Spain of Herve Falciani and are now seeking extradition of the Italian-French citizen being sought by police in connection with the theft of customer data from the Geneva branch of HSBC Private Bank. […] Copies of the HSBC data, which lists the…
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Florida Tax Preparer Sentenced to Federal Prison for Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
Ernst Pierre, a Port St. Lucie, Fla., tax preparer, was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) announced. Pierre was charged with a scheme to file false federal income tax returns using stolen identity information. Pierre…
Latest Data Breach Notification Bill Won’t Go Far
Eduard Goodman of Identity Theft 911 dissects the data breach notification bill introduced last month by Rep. Toomey and finds it seriously wanting: The latest bill to address the problem of data breaches is just one of an increasingly long line of proposed federal breach notice regulations with little to no chance of becoming law…
NYU Langone Medical Center notifies 8,400 neurosurgery patients that stolen computer may contain patient health info
NEW YORK, July 23, 2012 – NYU Langone Medical Center notified patients this week that a desktop computer containing personal health information was discovered stolen from the Faculty Group Practice office of John G. Golfinos, MD, chair of the Department of Neurosurgery on May 23, 2012. Although the computer was not encrypted, it was password…
Gamigo breach exposed 8.24 million passwords, and now they’re public
JR Brookwalter reports: Gamigo, an online game publisher based in Germany, was the subject of a security breach back in late February – but apparently, the worse was yet to come. After notifying its customers about the security breach back on March 1 via email, the email addresses and encrypted passwords of all 8.24 million…
Wrexham Council Email Blunder Reveals Personal Data
Rob Taylor reports: Workers at Wrexham Council were left with red faces yesterday after an email blunder saw personal information of residents being wrongly shared. Hundreds of names and personal e-mail addresses were divulged in a mail out of the authority’s annual tenant survey. One Wrexham.com reader described the error as “the council dropping a…