A Dothan, Alabama, woman was sentenced to serve 34 months in prison in connection with her role in committing stolen identity tax refund fraud. On July 16, a jury found Nina Macena, 32, guilty of conspiring to defraud the government through the filing of false tax returns, three counts of wire fraud and three counts…
Category: Business Sector
FCC jumps into data security; plans $10 million fine for carriers that breached consumer privacy
Back in 2013, I blogged about a breach involving TerraCom and YourTel. Their breach response was so poor that I devoted two posts to criticizing them. But as bad as the breach and their response were, things got even worse when Scripps News kept investigating and uncovered more problems. It was no surprise, therefore, to learn…
BreyerHorse.com site compromised for 18 months
Reeves International is notifying consumers who made purchases on BreyerHorses.com that their personal information may have been compromised in a breach that went undetected for 18 months. In a letter to those affected, Arthur Minnocci, CFO, writes: On September 9, 2014, we learned that unauthorized individuals installed malicious software on the computer server hosting the Breyer Horses…
Leader of Team Digi7al sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison
From the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Oklahoma: Daniel Trenton Krueger, one of two leaders of the computer hacking group known as Team Digi7al, was sentenced today to serve twenty-four months in federal prison for hacking the U.S. Navy, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and over 50 public and private computer systems, U.S. Attorney Danny C….
Personal info of almost 100,000 people exposed through flaw on site for student transcripts
Ashkan Soltani, Julie Tate and Ellen Nakashima report: The personal information of almost 100,000 people seeking their high school transcripts was recently exposed on a Web site that helps students obtain their records. The site, NeedMyTranscript.com, facilitates requests from all 50 states and covers more than 18,000 high schools around the country, according to its Web…
KR: Personal data of 7.45 million Pandora TV users accessed by hackers
Yikes. How did I miss this one? On October 15, Yonhap News reported: South Korea’s video sharing web operator Pandora TV Co. said Wednesday more than 114,000 items of personal data were leaked from its webpage while hackers accessed some 7.45 million items of private information. […] The leaked data includes user names, names, encoded…