From the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota: The last of seven defendants pleaded guilty earlier today in federal court in St. Paul in connection with a credit card skimming operation that resulted in an estimated loss of more than $150,000. Appearing before United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle, Nancia Raquel Range, age 34,…
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Malaysian National Indicted for Hacking into Federal Reserve Bank
The Dept. of Justice issued the following press release about a case noted earlier today on this blog: Defendant’s Criminal Activities Extended to the National Security Sector A four-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn today charging Lin Mun Poo, a resident and citizen of Malaysia, with hacking into a computer…
Stolen laptop contained Hanger Orthopedic Group employee data
Through their lawyers at Foley & Lardner, Austin-headquartered Hanger Orthopedic Group (NYSE- HGR) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a laptop stolen earlier this month contained employee information. By letter dated November 12, the firm reported that a laptop was stolen from an employee in the Human Resources Department on November 4. The…
Two years after a hacking incident, firm learns that employee data were accessed
Tennessee-based EOD Technology (EODT) recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach that occurred in August 2008. No, that’s not a typo: 2008. By letter dated November 12, the firm reported that in August 2008, they became aware that one of their computers had been accessed by an individual or individuals outside…
Federal Reserve Hacker Steals 400,000 Credit Card Numbers: Feds
Jonathan Dienst reports: A Malaysian man hacked his way into the Federal Reserve Bank’s computers in Cleveland and also had more than 400,000 stolen credit card numbers when Secret Service agents finally caught up with him, federal prosecutors said. Lin Mun Poo was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport last month as he traveled to…
Liberty Coalition gives University of Hawaii an ‘F’ for data breaches
In a news report headlined, “Data breaches earn UH an ‘F’,” Gordon Y.K. Pang reports: A national organization has given the University of Hawaii a grade of “F” for online security breaches that exposed Social Security numbers and other sensitive information in nearly 260,000 records. The Liberty Coalition, a nonprofit civil liberties watchdog group, yesterday…