Christina Dickinson and Dave Delozier report: It was the last thing Harold Morton expected to find while taking some recyclables out to the alley behind his home. When he walked past a Dumpster, he saw it in a cardboard box: a thick blue binder. “I picked the book up and I opened it and right…
Category: Breach Incidents
Pennsylvania couple sentenced in bank fraud and ID theft case
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a husband and wife who used fraudulent identities to obtain credit cards were sentenced in federal court today by Senior United States District Court Judge William J. Nealon. According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, Ruth Singh, age 31, and Kuldeep…
Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords hashes
Chester Wisniewski writes: On Monday, Mozilla, the developer of popular open source applications like Firefox and Thunderbird, announced that a database containing usernames and password hashes belonging to users of addons.mozilla.org had been posted publicly by accident. If you registered for an account on addons.mozilla.org and you are one of the 44,000 users who might…
FL: Locals fall victim to credit card fraud
Chris Segal reports: When credit card bills from holiday shopping sprees arrive, consumers are encouraged to double-check charges, as local fraud claims are spiking. Bay County sheriff’s investigators on Monday reported a string of credit card fraud claims from customers of local banking institutions. Customers with Visa cards from Innovations Federal Credit Union and Tyndall…
American Honda Motor Co – Customer Info Exposed
Rafal Los writes: Alright, so Honda’s web sites didn’t actually get hacked, but like McDonalds they are on the receiving end of a lump of coal in their stocking for Christmas. A post on Honda’s “Piloteers.org” website for Honda Pilot owners hints at a data breach at a vendor maintaining a mailing list for customer of My Acura…
Westpac worker ‘aided $1.1m fraud’
Margaret Scheikowski reports: A Westpac employee was probably an accomplice of a Sydney man who defrauded the bank of more than $1.1 million through “identity theft”, a judge has found. Westpac Banking Corporation took civil action in the NSW Supreme Court, claiming that Ersever Toksoz, also known as Gino Versace, was the chief architect of…