International Checkout, Inc. recently notified customers after a security breach involving a database containing credit card numbers. The breach was discovered in mid-September, although the firm does not indicate how it first became aware of the problem. Subsequent investigation, completed on October 31, determined that the breach had occurred on August 23. Those affected were…
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CA: Help-desk employee who helped himself to co-worker’s information, sentenced to prison
United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Khris St. Ives Dulay Lu was sentenced in federal court in San Diego by United States District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez to serve 48 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, based upon his conviction for credit card fraud, in violation of…
Ca: RBC client sees others’ private data online
An alert reader from north of the border sends in this one. Ellen Roseman reports: Ava Wong had her identity stolen in 2008. She spent the next year trying to get her financial life in order again. So, she was upset to log into her RBC banking account last month and find someone else’s confidential…
NY: Ex-Federation Worker Charged in ID Theft Scam
A worker at UJA-Federation in New York allegedly led a $2 million identity theft ring that targeted top donors to the charitable organization, prosecutors announced Friday. Tracy Nelson, of Brooklyn, worked at UJA-Federation for more than two years processing donations until she was fired last summer as the thefts came to light, the Daily News…
Allina Sends Private Patient Info to 250,000 People
Mark Albert reports: In a breach of patient privacy, Allina Hospitals & Clinics included information on eight people – the fact that they are a patient, their email address, and the name of the company they worked for – in a mass email that went to a quarter of a million patients in Minnesota and…
Prosecutors: Hacker stole Seattleites’ credit card info for drug money
Levi Pullkinen reports: A Seattle grand jury has indicted a Maryland man accused of hacking into the credit card systems of several Seattle businesses and using stolen funds to fuel his heroin addiction. Currently in inpatient treatment for drug addition, 20-year-old Christopher A. Schroebel is facing federal hacking charges related to a string of high-tech…