A 31-year-old Romanian man is accused of stealing credit card data from at least 18 people and racking up $11,696 in charges at a Land O’Lakes Target store. Mircea C. Ciornei, of 3804 Olde Lanark Drive in Land O’Lakes, was arrested Tuesday. The investigation was done by the Florida Department of Financial Services. Several calls…
Category: Breach Incidents
Portland psychologists’ laptop stolen with confidential info (updated)
From KGW in Oregon: A Portland psychologist who has seen thousands of patients over the years put out a warning Tuesday night after his laptop computer was stolen. The computer contained social security numbers, names and diagnosis information. It was stolen from Dr. David Gostnell’s car last month. Some of his former patients were already…
‘Kryogeniks’ hacker sentenced for Comcast hacking
No PII involved in this one, but since many may remember the case, I thought I’d post the follow-up. James Robert Black, Jr., a.k.a. “Defiant,” was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to four months in prison, four months of electronic home monitoring, 150 hours of community service, three years of supervised release…
UK: Hackers steal from thousands of bank accounts in latest security breach
More on the breach previously mentioned in another blog entry. Victims at one bank have lost between £1,000 and £3,000 each thanks to a ‘trojan horse’ program developed by the cyber criminals. The name of the high street bank has yet to be released as the information has just been handed to the police. The…
126,000 college students and employees notified of breach
The College Center for Library Automation (CCLA), which provides automated library services and electronic resources to Florida’s public colleges, today began informing students, faculty, and staff of six colleges that some of their personal information was inadvertently open to online access between May 29 and June 2, 2010. A copy of the e-mail notification can…
Malware gang steal over £700K from one British bank
John Leyden reports: A banking Trojan attack has led to the fraudulent withdrawal of more than $1m from online banking accounts maintained with a UK bank since the start of July, according to security researchers. Web-based malware based on the infamous Zeus cybercrime toolkit is being used to steal money via the unnamed bank’s online…