Another follow-up to previous coverage here: A former policeman in Hong Kong began a four-year jail sentence Tuesday for his part in a global scam in which 10 million US dollars was stolen using cloned credit cards. Cheung Hoi-wing, 40, was recruited as one of five Hong Kong “cashers” in the international plot masterminded by…
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Fraud Bazaar Carders.cc Hacked
Brian Krebs reports: Carders.cc, a German online forum dedicated to helping criminals trade and sell financial data stolen through hacking, has itself been hacked. The once-guarded contents of its servers are now being traded on public file-sharing networks, leading to the exposure of potentially identifying information on the forum’s users as well as countless passwords…
AZ: Valley restaurant dumps years worth of sensitive information in dumpster
Meredith Yeomans reports: “Last name Taylor, first name Gary, social security number 569…“ Tom Rezler is a business owner in this Tempe shopping center and can’t believe what he recently found in nearby garbage dumpsters. Thousands of pages of sensitive information apparently disposed of by a neighboring business called The Vine Tavern and Eatery. […]…
UPDATE: Missing hard drive recovered
Note: This May 17 press release from the Arkansas National Guard updates a breach previously covered on DataBreaches.net (here and here): CAMP JOSEPH T. ROBINSON, Ark. — The external hard drive containing personal information on over 32,000 current and former Arkansas Guardsmen that was reported missing on February 22 has now been recovered and destroyed….
UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA
UC Berkeley is adding something a little different this year in its welcome package — cotton swabs for a DNA sample. In the past, incoming freshman and transfer students have received a rather typical welcome book from the College of Letters and Science’s “On the Same Page” program, but this year the students will be…
B.C.: ‘Human Error’ Behind Mistake Where Patient Information Released
Laurena Weninger reports: Personal patient information sent out by Interior Health to those to whom it did not belong is being chalked up as “human error.” “This breach was caused by a setting on a new device not being correctly set, resulting in double appointment letters being stuffed into envelopes,” said a letter sent out…