Nick Delgado reports: Advisors Unlimited controls at least $25 million in assets for their 1,000 clients. And according to company president Frank Salas, their Hagatna office was burglarized on September 11. Salas says several miscellaneous items were stolen, but the most important was an external hard drive containing confidential client information including financial and personal…
Category: Breach Incidents
FBI arrests dozens in raid on massive N.J. bank-fraud ring
Joe Ryan reports: FBI and IRS agents swept across New Jersey this morning and arrested roughly 50 alleged members of a massive bank-fraud ring that authorities say hijacked identities of overseas workers to bilk financial institutions. Authorities say members of the ring used Social Security numbers from Asian immigrants who worked in American territories, including…
Update: Roseville credit-card fraud traced to one restaurant
Bill Lindelof reports: Hundreds of local cases in which thieves have collected credit-card numbers and used them to fraudulently make purchases have been traced to customers who frequented one Roseville restaurant, police said today. Roseville police said that hundreds of credit-card numbers were compromised at Paul Martin’s American Bistro. Read more on the Sacramento Bee….
Large collection of stolen logins go public
Christopher Boyd blogs: Below is a rather bland FarmVille phish that was brought to my attention by a friend who had it posted to their Facebook account. The entire page is blank save for the fake login. […] Nothing spectacular, I’m sure you’ll agree. However, we did a little digging around on the same URL…
UK: Pair who ran Hornsey Road illegal credit card factory jailed
Tristan Kirk reports: Two fraudsters who ran a lucrative credit card factory from a flat in Haringey have been jailed today. Gabriel Yew and Cheng Chee Weng set up the operation in Hornsey Road, producing bogus bank cards using at least 700 stolen account numbers. When police raided the flat earlier this year, they discovered…
Cyber security challenge organisers in email privacy blunder
John Leyden reports: Organisers of the UK’s cyber security challenge committed an embarrassing email blunder by inadvertently revealing the email addresses of everyone who entered a forensics challenge to each other. A single challenge registration confirmation was CCed to everyone who entered, handing over a complete email list in the process. Read more in The Register.