Brad Leibowitz reports: A bank employee is under arrest after police charged her with selling account numbers of customers. On Feb. 28, police department officers arrested TD Bank of Elmwood Park employee Davasia Williamson, 22, of Bogota, in connection with the selling of private bank account numbers. According to police reports, Williamson was selling personal…
Category: Breach Incidents
Students’ info lifted, provided to third party
Katrease Stafford reports: Eastern Michigan University is investigating two former student employees who are believed to have taken personal identifiable information of approximately 45 students and improperly provided it to a third party. The data was taken from student records the former student employees had access to during the course of their employment. The University…
Men Charged With Theft of 3,600 Credit Card Numbers From Los Altos & Mountain View Gas Pumps
Claudia Cruz reports: Two men from Southern California face felony charges after they placed credit card skimmers inside several gas pumps in Los Altos and Mountain View in December, according to the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors said Tuesday they filed eight felony counts against Boris Tumasyan, 24, and Sarkis Sarkisyan, 23, that included…
Rogue Penn Mutual employee may have accessed and disclosed customer personal and financial information
Penn Mutual Life Insurance reports that a former employee may have accessed and disclosed customer information. Through their lawyers, Penn Mutual informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on February 1 that despite their forensic efforts, they were not able to determine definitively which customer accounts were improperly accessed, but they believe that the employee…
Access privileges error on Chapman University file allowed viewing of file with sensitive student information
On February 15, officials at Chapman University were informed that a document that should have been secured was available to authorized logged in system users who were not authorized to see that document . The university immediately secured the document by correcting the access privileges, and on February 22, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s…
SC: Midlands Tech warns employees of security breach
Wayne Washington reports: Midlands Technical College warned employees last month that a flash drive containing some of their personal information was taken from a human resources office at the college. The flash drive, since returned — without the personal data it previously held — could compromise the personal information of some of the college’s 500…