On August 28, Missouri’s new data protection law went into effect. Fat lot of good it did for past clients of Nationwide Credit Counseling. When their financial records, replete with personal information, were found in bankers boxes in a dumpster , were they notified of the breach? No. And was any action taken against the…
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Former Lone Star National Bank VP convicted of bank fraud
A former vice president and senior loan officer of Lone Star National Bank has been convicted of bank fraud. Emma Vigil, 48, of McAllen, pleaded guilty to two counts of bank fraud. At the hearing, Vigil admitted to using her position at Lone Star to conduct hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent and unauthorized…
Trial Date Set for Champaign Couple Charged with Credit Card Fraud
A Champaign, Illinois couple, Karen D. Dooley, 29, and her husband, Michael J. Jefferies, 32, were arraigned in federal court in Urbana on various federal criminal offenses related to credit card fraud in a seven-count indictment. The grand jury charged Dooley with conspiracy to commit credit card fraud (one count), credit card fraud (one count),…
Privacy concerns close Pierce County septic Web page after personal data found
Mike Archibold reports: The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has pulled a page from its Web site that allowed people to access county records on residential septic tanks. Department spokeswoman Joby Winans said Tuesday that the shutdown was prompted by the discovery of a homeowner’s credit card number on one of the 3 million documents posted…
Plugging The Government’s Biggest Data Leak
Andy Greenberg reports: When David Ferriero was named head of the federal government’s National Archive and Records Agency last month, he didn’t just become America’s most important librarian. He also took on one of the toughest tasks in government IT today: plugging the source of a continual stream of information leaks, including what may have…
Document Details Help TJX Hacker Gave Prosecutors
Kim Zetter reports: Admitted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez has identified two Russian accomplices who helped him hack into numerous companies and steal more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers. Gonzalez told prosecutors that the hackers breached at least four card processing companies, as well as a series of foreign banks, a brokerage house…