Lorene Yue reports: Usually, when passwords and personal information are exposed, it’s because someone hacked a company’s not-so-secure system. Motorola, however, managed to put people’s info at risk without such malfeasance when it failed to wipe the memory of a batch of refurbished Xooms. The tablets in question were sold by Woot.com between October and…
Category: Business Sector
Follow-up: Man gets seven years in prison for Navy credit card scam
Here’s a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: Tim McGlone reports that the leader of a credit card skimming operation who enlisted an employee of McDonald’s on Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison. Read more on The Virginian-Pilot. Thanks to Information Privacy Professionals for…
Hungarian citizen who attempted to extort Marriott International into giving him a job sentenced to prison
As an update to a case previously mentioned on this blog, Dow Jones Newswire reports that Attila Nemeth has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort Marriott International into giving him a job by illegally acquiring their confidential propietary data. Nemeth, who arguably should be considered for a role in any reality…
Why Are We Only Finding Out About the VeriSign Security Breach Now?
Keith Wagstaff gives voice to the question many of us were asking yesterday, “Why Are We Only Finding Out About the VeriSign Security Breach Now?” Read his commentary on Time.
TX: Lakeway restaurant customers victimized by cybercrime credit fraud
Matt Olsen reports: Police say hackers stole credit card information from dozens of diners who all ate at a restaurant. While investigators have cleared the restaurant of any wrongdoing, the owner tells KVUE he is taking steps to restore the business that’s been lost due to the fraud. By all appearances it was business as usual…
NY: Mamaroneck Staples Cashier Charged in $181K Fraud
Brian Donnelly reports: A cashier at the Staples in Mamaroneck has been charged with stealing, then selling, 50 customers’ credit card numbers, leading to $181,800 in credit card fraud, according to a Westchester County Police press release. Valerie Fajardo, a 21-year-old from the Bronx, was arrested at the store on 2444 Boston Post Road on…