The 9th Circuit overturned the lengthy sentence of a man convicted after having been found in possession of over 500 stolen credit card numbers. Why? Because the credit card numbers were all expired at the time. via Courthouse News
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Baylor Law Screw-Up Reveals Personal Data of Entire Admitted Class: Data That We’ve Got
Elie Mystal writes: There are data breaches, and then there are data dummies. The people at Baylor Law seem to be in the latter category. Nobody was trying to steal the personal information of the admitted students at Baylor Law. But a screw-up by someone at the school resulted in all of the personal information of the admitted…
Global Payments’ security FAIL compounded by transparency FAIL?
A data breach doesn’t necessarily have to be fatal to a business but there are entities that seem to shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to breach response. Did Global Payments suffer self-inflicted public relations injury this past week when they didn’t get ahead of the story? And how will their failure to…
KE: Thieves steal computers at Kapsabet law courts
I’ve read a number of news stories recently about burglaries of government offices in various African countries. Here’s one from this week, out of Kenya. Barry Salil reports: Business at the Kapsabet law courts was paralysed for most part of yesterday as police investigated theft of computers and documents at the premises. Thieves are reported…
UK: York computer hacker, Edward Pearson, jailed for identity fraud
From York Press, an update to a case mentioned previously on this blog: A York computer hacker has been jailed for an ID fraud which affected thousands of people and could have netted him £834,000. Southwark Crown Court was told how Edward Pearson, 23, used internet viruses to gain more than eight million personal details…
Global Payments confirms data breach (Update 2)
After being named by the Wall Street Journal earlier today, Global Payments Inc. has issued a press release about the breach reported earlier today by Brian Krebs: Global Payments Inc, a leader in payment processing services, announced it identified and self-reported unauthorized access into a portion of its processing system. In early March 2012, the…