More shutdowns as law enforcement swoops in. Kevin Rawlinson reports: Three men have been arrested and 36 criminal websites selling credit card information and other personal data shut down as part of a two-year international anti-fraud operation, police have confirmed. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), working with the FBI and US Department of Justice,…
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UK: After drive with client data sold on the Internet, Safe and Secure Insurance Services signs undertaking to improve data protection
Safe and Secure Insurance Services Limited in the U.K. apparently wasn’t that safe and secure. The Information Commissioner’s Office had the firm sign an undertaking after a hard drive containing their clients’ data was purchased over the Internet. The documents on the drive mainly consisted of insurance quotes and application forms dating from 2009 –…
Cn: 1,700 arrested on stealing personal data
Wow. He Dan reports: Police across the country have arrested more than 1,700 people on suspicion of stealing or misusing personal information, according to the Ministry of Public Security. Under the ministry’s deployment, police in 20 provincial-level regions, including Beijing and Shanxi, uncovered 38 operations where people’s personal details were being illegally traded, according to…
Minn. AG cites Accretive for debt tactics
Things didn’t look great for Accretive back in January after they were sued by Minnesota for failure to protect patient confidentiality. But today they look even worse. Alexandra Tempus of AP reports that Accretive’s stock dropped 40% today after the AG released a 6-volume report on them.
Texas Error Exposed Over 13 Million Millions of Voters’ Social Security Numbers (updated)
I don’t know how he is on other issues, but Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is one of the most active AG’s when it comes to pursuing those who dump data or don’t secure it properly. I can only imagine how mortified he must be by this breach, which thankfully, could have been much worse…
Cryptic Studios uncovers old hack, notifies users
A reader alerted me to a breach notification he received from Perfect World subsidiary Cryptic Studios, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developer. You can read the web version of their notice. The hack occurred in 2010 but was only first discovered now due to “increased security analysis.” The intruder reportedly accessed account names, handles,…