Making possession of tools a felony opens up new prosecutorial possibilities: A Greeley waitress from China, arrested last week for allegedly “skimming” customers’ credit cards, has been charged with a felony — possession of identity theft tools. Yu Lin, 22, was arrested last week and released on $5,000 bond. She was arrested after the owners…
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‘Kryogeniks’ hacker sentenced for Comcast hacking
No PII involved in this one, but since many may remember the case, I thought I’d post the follow-up. James Robert Black, Jr., a.k.a. “Defiant,” was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to four months in prison, four months of electronic home monitoring, 150 hours of community service, three years of supervised release…
Tuesday’s batch of newly uncovered breaches
In response to my Freedom of Information request, I received a batch of 15 breach reports received in February by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. Of the 15, five of them were news to me: M&T Bank reported that an individual walked into their Pikesville branch and while talking with a branch manager, removed another…
Add Boise to those impacted by Mercer breach
The Associated Press reports that the names and personal information, including SSN, of about 300 current and former Boise city employees were on a backup computer tape lost by a courier used by Mercer to transport the tape to a storage facility in Washington.
Laptop Revival repairman jailed
I had posted an earlier story on this case over on PogoWasRight.org, but probably should have posted something here, too. From John Leyden: A corrupt laptop repair engineer has gone to jail for nine months after he was convicted of hacking into the laptop of one of his customers. Grzegorz Zachodni, 30, was caught browsing…
Vermont reports uncover three more breaches
From breach reports to Vermont, here are three more breaches I didn’t know about previously: Cathedral Square notified residents that their only payment processing system had been compromised, resulting in access to the residents’ names, bank account numbers, and routing numbers if they paid their rent electronically. Residents do not seem to have been offered…