Terry Maxon reports: AMR Corp. warned approximately 79,000 retirees, former and current employees Friday that someone stole a hard drive that contained personal information about them and their beneficiaries. “The data, which had been kept by AMR’s pension department, spans a time period from 1960 through 1995, and consists of images of historical microfilm files…
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Canadian teen charged with hacking U.S. server
The Associated Press reports that a London, Ontario teen has been charged with hacking into a server in Colorado. Canadian police reportedly acted on a complaint from the sheriff’s department in Castle Rock, Colo. Police say the complaint involved unauthorized access and damage to a private server that contained sensitive data, including tax records.
New York Life Insurance data thief sentenced
Stephanie Fahlgren, 33, of Sacramento, was sentenced this week to two and a half years in federal prison for access device fraud. She had pleaded guilty on January 28, 2010 after having been arrested in July 2009. According to court documents, from June 2008 through November 2008, Fahlgren used her computer to obtain personal and…
GA business says it accidentally trashed customers’ personal information
Bryan Baker reports: …. after a move to a new office, commercial real estate company Atkins & Associates says it accidentally tossed out real estate records into a dumpster behind its Augusta business. Off camera a company spokesperson tells 12 On Your Side they were purging real estate records that simply got mixed in with…
TX: Dozens of credit card numbers stolen from Driskill guests
Tony Plohetski reports: The credit card numbers of dozens of recent guests at the downtown Driskill Hotel were stolen after thieves hacked into the accounting network for the hotel’s management company, officials said. Austin police said they are still trying to determine the exact number of local victims, but that up to 700 people who…
Sony customers notified of security breach
Sony Electronics notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office yesterday of a breach involving customer data at a third party service provider, TeleTech. According to the notification (pdf), TeleTech notified Sony that unauthorized copies of certain customers’ credit card information had been made and e-mailed to an account outside of TeleTech’s network. The total number…