James S. Mooney, 44, of Alexandria, Va., was sentenced today to a total of 120 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Mooney was also ordered to forfeit and pay restitution in the amount of $40,762.26. Mooney initially pled not guilty and…
Author: Dissent
Simple fix to bank security breach: Close the blinds
Ivan Penn reports: Major financial institutions spend millions of dollars protecting private information from falling into the wrong hands. But even with all the high-tech gadgetry and sophisticated computer firewalls, sometimes they miss the simplest safeguards — like closing the blinds. Take the Bank of America branch office on the high pedestrian and vehicle traffic…
(update) GAA details stolen in data breach
As a small update to the GAA breach reported yesterday, News Letter reports that an arrest has been made: Personal details of more than 500 GAA members have been stolen. One man was arrested followed the security breach at Belfast company Servasport, which held the database. The information taken includes postal and email addresses, phone…
Hackers steal Walgreens e-mail list, attack consumers
Bob Sullivan reports: Pharmacy giant Walgreens had to swallow some bitter medicine on Friday when it told customers that a computer criminal had stolen its e-mail marketing list. The criminal used the list to send out realistic-looking spam that asked recipients to enter their personal information into a Web page controlled by hackers. “We are…
SWIRCA laptop computer stolen
The Southwestern Indiana Regional Council on Aging, Inc. (SWIRCA) is in the process of notifying 757 clients of a breach of their protected personal information due to the theft of a case manager’s laptop computer from SWIRCA’s offices. The theft occurred sometime between 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 4 when the case manager last used the…
SWIRCA laptop computer stolen
The Southwestern Indiana Regional Council on Aging, Inc. (SWIRCA) is in the process of notifying 757 clients of a breach of their protected personal information due to the theft of a case manager’s laptop computer from SWIRCA’s offices. The theft occurred sometime between 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 4 when the case manager last used the…