Jared Newman reports: AOL is asking users to reset their passwords as it investigates a recent flurry of spam e-mails. According to Reuters, the uptick in AOL spam is related to a security breach that affected roughly 2 percent of users. Hackers made off with e-mail addresses, mailing addresses, encrypted passwords, and encrypted security questions. AOL…
Category: Business Sector
Ca: Southwest Community Business Development Corp. claims there’s nothing they can do if someone steals a laptop with unencrypted information from an employee’s unattended vehicle. Srsly??????
CBC News reports: A laptop with a database containing the personal financial information, names, birth dates, social insurance numbers, and addresses of 92 people has been stolen in Saint John, a CBC News investigation reveals. The laptop, containing the information of an identity thief’s dreams, was left in a car overnight, unattended. The car’s window…
VA: Restaurant worker arrested for skimming credit cards
WUSA reports: Authorities say a restaurant worker was charged with credit card fraud and identity theft after a customer saw him do something suspicious with his credit card. According to Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office officials, 22-year-old Yaoliang Gao of New York was working at the Moca Asian Bistro in the Eastern Marketplace Plaza when he…
UT: Disbarred lawyer’s client files with personal information found in dumpster
Mike Anderson reports: David Shell is outraged. Files containing clients’ Social Security numbers and bank account information were found dumped outside the former office of Thomas Rasmussen near 4700 S. Highland Drive. One of those files contained Shell’s information. “I don’t believe it,” he said. “They should not be able to just take a receipt…
Student loan debt collector exposes thousands of students’ loan debts to others
If you fell behind in your student loan repayments to the U.S. Education Department, “Mike Doe” (not his real name) may know about it. He didn’t want to know, but a vendor for NCO Financial Systems, the collection agency contracted by USED, recently sent him other students’ loan repayment collection statements. The statements included the individuals’ names,…
Snelling Staffing discloses breach
Okay, here’s a breach report that had me scratching my head. See if this makes sense to you: a former Snelling Staffing employee tried to set up a cloud-based server at home and exposed employee information. But if s/he was a “former employee” at the time, why was s/he in possession of any employee information…