UPI is reporting that there are now 230 reports of credit card fraud associated with EVG Quality Gas in Sierra Madre. The breach was mentioned in previous reports on this blog. Chief Marilyn Diaz of the Sierra Madre Police Department said authorities want to question the owner of EVG Quality Gas, which closed down during…
Category: Breach Incidents
Update on White Rock Networks breach
Yesterday, I reported on a breach reported by WFAA in Texas, where boxes of intact personnel records, some containing Social Security Numbers and even medical information on employees, had been found next to a public dumpster in Plano. As Brad Watson of WFAA reported, White Rock Networks had gone bankrupt in 2006 and its assets were…
UK: North Yorkshire Police in 39 data protection law breaches
Julie Hayes reports: North Yorkshire police officers and staff breached data protection laws 39 times in the past three years, the force has revealed. In response to a Freedom of Information request, North Yorkshire Police said the incidents included officers and staff conducting checks of private telephone numbers, obtaining personal data without consent, accessing personal…
Sensitive Scottish court records discovered at recycling bank
A press release from the UK ICO: The Scottish Court Service breached the Data Protection Act by failing to take sufficient steps to prevent court documents containing sensitive personal details being accidentally disposed of at a local recycling bank in Glasgow, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO was first made aware of…
(update) NYC SSA breach involved more than SSN
As an update to the breach involving a subcontractor working in the NYC Social Security Administration Office of Temporary Disability Assistance, other news sources such as WTEN report the name of the individual arrested in the case: Evan Kane of Waterford, New York. It also appears that in addition to 15,000 Social Security Numbers, other…
TX: Personnel records found dumped outside Plano library
Brad Watson reports about dozens of boxes containing sensitive information: “I picked up a notebook that was sitting on top, I flipped it over and saw pages and pages of Social Security numbers,” she said. “I got concerned.” Inside the cartons, News 8 reviewed hundreds of names, Social Security numbers, medical records, home addresses and…