On June 23, insurance broker Marsh and Mercer notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that in April, a back up tape being transported by a third party courier between Marsh offices was lost. The tape contained employee benefits information such as names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and drivers’ license numbers, and…
Category: Breach Incidents
Ohio agency accidentally exposes personal data of disabled – twice
Alan Johnson reports: Personal and sensitive medical information on 200 developmentally disabled Ohioans was accidentally posted twice on a state computer network in the past 10 days. Officials with the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities said yesterday that the incident was not a “data breach” because the general public never had access to the information….
Ukrainian brought to NYC to face cybercrime charge
The Associated Press reports that Egor Shevelev is being held without bond in NYC after pleading not guilty to enterprise corruption and other charges. The 24-year-old from Kiev was arrested while vacationing in Greece in 2008. He was extradited to New York last week. Manhattan prosecutors say he amassed 75,000 stolen credit-card numbers. They say…
Black Market Travel Agents
Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 38 defendants from across the United States have been charged in a series of indictments that allege an extensive network of black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud…
(follow-up) TX: S.A. has its largest ID-theft case ever
Guillermo Contreras reports: Credit-card numbers from 17,000 guests at the Emily Morgan Hotel were stolen and used in a three-state shopping spree to buy farm and ranch equipment, tires, machinery, all-terrain vehicles and other goods, federal officials say. Prosecutors unsealed indictments Thursday against five people in what officials say is the largest identify-theft case ever…
WI: Village of Big Bend Employees Have Payroll Info Stolen
Employees of a Waukesha County village are worried about identity theft, after their payroll information was stolen. Big Bend Village Clerk Bobbi Wopper says the company that processes the village’s payroll had a laptop stolen from a car in Milwaukee last week. And police have not recovered that computer. She did not say who the…