Sometimes it pays to wait until you get more information before making any public statement. A police chief in Connecticut was ridiculed widely yesterday after suggesting that a stolen laptop containing a “fair amount of records” would likely be inaccessible because the battery was old and run down. Today, there’s an updated assessment and statement….
Category: Breach Incidents
Shanghai: 6 held over theft of personal info
Six people have been detained in connection with stealing, selling and publishing online the personal details of 3,600 local residents, police said yesterday. Officers said that details – including names, addresses and phone numbers – of residents from 14 well-known residential complexes changed hands six times before finally being posted on Baidu Wenku, China’s biggest…
CT: Police laptop stolen from cruiser parked at dealership
Elizabeth Dinan reports: A police department laptop computer containing “a fair amount of records” was stolen from a marked cruiser and an on-board camera was damaged while the cruiser was left at an auto dealership for service, said Chief Jon Tretter. The theft from and damage to the “brand new” cruiser occurred last week when…
Identity fraud case has broader scope than first thought
Andrea Simmons reports on a case mentioned on this blog last month. … A simple investigation into a couple stolen checks has evolved into what Duluth authorities say is a wide-ranging tax fraud case involving Ford, three separate identity theft rings with half a dozen or more conspirators and upwards of 5,800 victims. […] After…
LastPass Security Notification
If you use LastPass, you’ll need to change your master password. According to the site’s blog: We noticed an issue yesterday and wanted to alert you to it. As a precaution, we’re also forcing you to change your master password. We take a close look at our logs and try to explain every anomaly we…
TX: Suit wants $3.5 billion for state computer glitch
A second class-action lawsuit has been filed in a Houston federal court against Comptroller Susan Combs on behalf of 3.5 million Texans whose personal information was exposed to public access on a government computer server for more than a year. “We are seeking the $1,000 statutory penalty for each of these individuals whose privacy was…