MetLife, who reported in August that an employee had been sharing disability insurance applications with an unauthorized individual, recently received more bad news. According to a letter they sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the third-party provider whose database they use to run searches on individuals in the course of their business recently…
Category: Breach Incidents
Midtown Motors’ login to TransUnion compromised, credit reports accessed
Credit reporting agency TransUnion has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that compromise of customer Midtown Motors’ login information resulted in the unauthorized access to an unspecified number of individuals’ credit reports. In their letter, TransUnion states that the compromise was no fault of the customer’s (then how did it happen?), and TransUnion will…
UK: Man pleads guilty to spam and computer viruses
A Scottish man pleaded guilty today (Friday 22 October) to Computer Misuse charges in connection with an international operation. The joint investigation by Metropolitan Police and the Finnish authorities began in 2006 into an organized group carrying out a sophisticated e-crime by writing new computer viruses that could by-pass anti-virus products. Tens of thousands of…
Surrey RCMP and Vancouver Police Department disrupt credit card fraud ring
An extensive number of charges are being considered against individuals in the Lower Mainland after the Surrey RCMP and the Vancouver Police Department teamed up to put a stop to a fraud ring operating out of Vancouver. The Surrey RCMP Combined Forces Identity Theft Team (CFITT) began a Fraud investigation after receiving information regarding a…
Johns Hopkins University e-mail attachment error exposed personal info
Johns Hopkins University has notified the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services of a breach involving 692 of its Applied Physics Laboratory employees’ dependents. Because HHS’s breach logs don’t provide a lot of detail, I contacted JHU for additional information on the incident. As I have come to expect from them, they promptly responded with…
Thames Valley District hacker: “I did it to prove to people that their information isn’t as secure as they think”
Norman De Bono updates the story on the Thames Valley District hack: The board’s student portal was hacked, and Facebook quickly became rife with reports it was the work of a 16-year-old, Lucan-area student in Grade 11 at Medway high school in Arva. In Facebook message exchanges, someone purporting to be the youth said he…