Choi Mo-Ran reports: Authorities said yesterday that they have arrested three hackers suspected of leaking the personal data of 17 million people from 225 websites. The Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency announced yesterday that it had arrested the trio, who stole personal data from Korean websites and sold it to loan lenders and chauffeur service companies…
Category: Business Sector
Verizon Investigating Two More Retail Breaches
Danny Yadron reports: Verizon Communications Inc. is investigating possible security breaches at two unnamed retailers that appear similar to intrusions at other merchants late last year, a Verizon official said. Bryan Sartin, director of the research, investigations, solutions, knowledge team at Verizon’s enterprise solutions unit, said the retailers involved in the newly discovered breaches haven’t yet…
Lawsuits against Target continue to be filed in wake of breach
MPR News reports that several Minnesota banks have sued Target over its recent data breach: The First Farmers & Merchants National Banks of Grand Meadow, Cannon Falls, Luverne, Fairmont, and Brownsdale. And for those keeping count, MPR reports: So far, Target now faces 22 data breach lawsuits in the Minnesota U.S. District Court alone. The…
MI: Hackers target Carson City Village Market, credit card info stolen and misused
WZZM reports: The Montcalm County Sheriff’s Department is warning of a data breach potentially affecting dozens of customers. Investigators say thieves hacked into the Carson Village Market server and accessed customers’ credit and debit card information. Multiple people have called police to report their credit card numbers were used to make purchases in southeast Michigan…
CO: Heath receives sentence for identity theft, tax fraud
Marija B. Vader reports: Randall Vannoy Heath, 52, of Colorado Springs was sentenced Feb. 18 to serve 84 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Heath was found guilty of aggravated identity theft and for filing a false claim with the Internal Revenue Service, according to a U.S. Department of Justice…
OR: Office landlord fined after trashing mortgage records in course of eviction
Eliot Njus reports: The owners of a Northeast Portland office building have been fined after a state regulator said its cleaning service threw 30 boxes of mortgage records into an unlocked trash bin while evicting a mortgage company. The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has ordered 122nd Group LLC to pay $5,000 for failing to…