James Muñoz reports: When a fast food worker found three folders with private information on three different people, he decided to call KENS 5. We tracked down the three men who were none too happy to find their personal information compromised. We contacted one of the medical offices named in the documents, a spokesperson said…
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Stolen US Bank laptop contained customer data
Sun News Staff reports: On March 1, a financial advisor at US Bank, 5154 Wilson Mills, reported a laptop missing from his desk. The bank assistant manager noticed the laptop missing, but did not report it because she knew the financial advisor sometimes took the laptop home. The advisor told police the laptop contained sensitive…
Former Houston bank teller pleads guilty to selling customer data
A Houston area bank teller has pleaded guilty to bank fraud arising from a scheme to steal thousands of dollars from his former employer’s customer accounts, U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno announced Tuesday. Christopher Martin, 25, of Houston, appeared before United States District Judge Nancy Atlas and pleaded guilty to bank fraud admitting that while…
Class Action Suit Over Aetna’s Security Breach Is Dismissed
Shannon P. Duffy reports: Finding there was no more than speculative injury, a federal judge has dismissed a class action suit against Aetna Inc. filed in the wake of news that the insurer’s computer database may have been hacked and that personal data of up to 450,000 job applicants were potentially at risk. In Allison…
(update) HSBC: Data theft incident broader than first thought
New reports out yesterday indicate that the theft of HSBC client data was bigger than initially reported, but the reports differ as to how big it really was. Jeremy Kirk reports on Computerworld: HSBC said Thursday about 15,000 accounts of its Swiss private banking unit were compromised after an employee allegedly stole data, some of…
Pennsylvania’s Web security officer leaves post a week after talking about PennDOT hacking incident
Jan Murphy reports: Last week, Pennsylvania’s chief information security officer Robert Maley was at an information security conference in San Francisco talking about a hacking incident involving PennDOT’s computers. This week, Maley is gone. […] Danielle Klinger, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation, said the agency is not aware of any hacking or…