Tricia Bishop reports: A 53-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison Friday for his role in an identity theft and mail fraud scheme that affected more than 250 victims and lasted nearly 30 years, the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office said. According to the plea agreement, Loquann Johnson and his co-conspirators targeted…
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UK: Private Info Missing On Lost Disk
A good argument can be made not to count this as a breach, but the loss reminds us of the need to encrypt… A computer disk containing the details of 2,000 members of the British Council has been lost, it has been revealed. The details reportedly include names, national insurance numbers, salary and bank account…
UK: Patient records on stolen laptop
An NHS trust serving people across south Wales has been criticised after a laptop with details of about 5,000 patients were stolen. Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University NHS Trust was found to have breached data protection laws. The computer, which had patient medical records on it which were not encrypted, was stolen from an unlocked office….
CA: Credit card fraud hits Glenn County departments
One of the many problems with large incidents like the Heartland Payment Systems breach is that you wonder whether every bank or CU breach being reported is linked…. Barbara Arrigoni reports: A bank under contract with Glenn County has alerted officials of allegedly fraudulent charges to county credit cards. As of late Friday, the Finance…
Roundup of local Heartland breach stories
It seems that now all of the local media have picked up the story and are reporting on local banks and credit unions. Given the extent of the breach, listing each story as a separate post is unwarranted, but here’s a roundup of stories over the past few days: Another area credit union impacted by…
Monster.com Reports Theft of User Data
Deja vu all over again… Nancy Gohring of IDG News Service reports: Monster.com is advising its users to change their passwords after data including e-mail addresses, names and phone numbers were stolen from its database. The break-in comes just as the swelling ranks of the unemployed are turning to sites like Monster.com to look for…