Sometimes leaks keep leaking…. The Information Commissioner’s Office is investigating the leak of confidential files naming blacklisted construction workers, writes Andrew Hankinson. The files, which contain details of the trade union activity of 3,213 construction workers, were taken out of circulation in March 2009 when the ICO seized them from the Consulting Association. The CA…
Category: Breach Incidents
KCI working to contain employee data breach
David Hendricks reports: San Antonio-based Kinetic Concepts Inc. was offering credit monitoring and other identity-theft prevention services to its U.S. employees Thursday after an inadvertent e-mail containing an attachment listing employees’ vital information was sent internally Wednesday, a KCI spokesman said Thursday. The e-mail’s attachment listed names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and…
Faculty, staff ID threatened
Sarah Krimm reports: At 8:55 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 26 an e-mail containing the Social Security number, driver’s license number, and first and last name of 2,484 full and part-time ASU [Arkansas State University] employees was sent to 144 ASU e-mail addresses. This information breach has raised concern among affected faculty, as identity theft becomes…
West Virginia accounting firm employee sentenced for ID theft
Tina Holsopple, 44, of Culloden, West Virginia, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. to fourteen months in prison. She was also ordered to pay restitution to the Poca Valu Rite pharmacy in the amount of $146,494.91 for identity theft. Holsopple pleaded guilty to the federal charge in May 2010,…
Nine Former Cell Phone Company Employees with Stealing Customer Information in $15 Million Cell Phone Cloning Scheme (updated)
Nine people, all former employees of a national cell phone service provider, have been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, access device fraud, and aggravated identity theft for their alleged roles in a $15 million cell phone cloning scheme. The charges, which were unsealed today, were announced by Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney…
NZ: Card security breached in Qtown
Grant Bryant reports: A spate of credit card scams has hit Queenstown. The biggest scam was centred at the Man St parking building, but it was not the only scam to breach cardholder security in the resort this week. People who had used their credit cards for payments were then later phoned by their card…