Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, Minnesota, a 26-year-old Texas man was sentenced for hacking into computer networks at a Minnesota business and at NASA. U.S. District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Jeremey Parker, of Houston, Texas, to 24 months in prison on one count of wire fraud. He was indicted in the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Ie: DCU apologises for data protection breach
Dublin City University has issued an apology after the office that deals with its Intra work placements flooded hundreds of inboxes with unwanted emails. The office subscribed a number of businesses and employers to an email list without permission. An email was sent out asking employers – many of whom had taken on DCU graduates…
Email error results in some Jackson National Life Insurance members being notified
Jackson National Life Insurance recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on April 12, 2011, an email error resulted in a file being mailed to the wrong broker-deal. The file contained March 2011 data, including names, policy numbers, policy values, transaction dates, and amounts. The file did not include any Social Security numbers…
CO: Nurse accused of stealing identities of hospital patients
Kyle Clark reports: A nurse who worked at five or more hospitals in the Denver area faces 90 felony charges in a wide-ranging identity theft investigation, 9Wants to Know investigators have learned. Prosecutors suspect a registered nurse working at several hospitals through a nurse staffing agencies improperly accessed patient files to steal Social Security numbers…
GA: Sandy Springs man charged with ID theft
David Ibata reports: A Sandy Springs man is in Fulton County Jail, charged with more than 100 counts of identity theft, after police investigating the odor of burning marijuana discovered much more than pot in the man’s apartment, authorities said. […] Investigators spotted a notebook containing people’s names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and PIN…
NZ: Labour Leaks — How I did it
While LulzSec has been making child’s play of Sony’s security, a blogger named Cameron Slater (WhaleOil) has been embarrassing the heck out of the National Labour Party in New Zealand. In the last two days, he has written more about their breach mentioned previously on this blog: Labour and their proxy bloggers have been telling a…