From the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network report, Identity Theft Trends, Patterns, and Typologies Reported in Suspicious Activity Reports Filed by Depository Institutions January 1, 2003 – December 31, 2009, the Executive Summary: Identity theft was the sixth most frequently reported characterization of suspicious activity within the period of the study, behind structuring/money laundering, check fraud, mortgage loan fraud,…
Category: Breach Incidents
MWeb hacked, users’ details exposed (updated)
Duncan McLeod reports: The accounts of thousands of MWeb broadband customers appear to have been compromised, with their logon and password details apparently published on the Internet by hackers. As many as 2,390 users of MWeb’s business digital subscriber lines have been affected. […] The list, which includes accounts belonging to several prominent businesses, including…
UK: Darwen firm’s customer data posted online
Catherine Pye reports: Crown Paints could be fined for data breaches after publishing personal details of hundreds of customers online. Enquiries and complaints entered this year on Crown’s Decorating Centre website, featuring home addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses were made public after an internet hitch on Friday morning. The Darwen-based company is now being…
Tempering justice with mercy?
A number of people have commented on Twitter and on this blog that the young man who was arrested for breaching the Houston Healthcare database should have been thanked and/or hired. If this were 1983, I might agree with them, but I found myself taking a harder line about the breach as it was not…
Nigerian national sentenced to 102 months for role in airline ticket scam
Ademola Ismaila Adegoke, 43, of Accra, Ghana, was sentenced this week to 102 months in prison for using stolen credit card numbers to steal more than $400,000 from U.S. citizens. U.S. District Court Judge Liam O’Grady also ordered Adegoke to serve two years of supervised release following his prison term. The defendant has agreed to…
County employee resigns after laptop stolen
When the economy’s tough, people generally do not want to resign from their jobs, but in the wake of an embarrassing data breach, Carol Vaughn reports: The Accomack County employee whose county-issued laptop computer was stolen from a Las Vegas hotel room earlier this month has resigned. The information technology department employee, who was supervised…