Phaedra Laird reports: Authorities in Middle Township are investigating how documents from Municipal Hall containing personal information like social security numbers, landed in a public dumpster. The information, which was handed over to officials, could’ve easily landed in the wrong hands. “Oh, I got some more social security numbers.” When Carla Carpenter came to the…
Category: Breach Incidents
OH: Disclosure law doesn’t cover misplaced documents
Josh Sweigart reports: If a government misplaces a pile of documents containing confidential information in a Dumpster, they don’t have to tell anyone. If they lose a password protected laptop computer, state law requires public disclosure within 45 days. That is why Butler County wasn’t required to tell the 10,600 people potentially affected by a…
J.P. Morgan Chase employee pleads guilty to selling customer profiles
Dennis C. Pfannenschmidt, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a Monroe County woman pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William J. Nealon to participating in a scheme with others to access and unlawfully obtain more than $60,000 from accounts in a New Jersey bank. Pfannenschmidt stated that Christine…
Insurers Deny Coverage for Breach Notice Costs (and why companies should consider cyber insurance coverage and why brokers should offer it)
David Navetta comments on the litigation involving the University of Utah, Perpetual Storage, and Colorado Casualty Insurance Co. You may wish for a scorecard to keep all the players straight: It was recently reported that an insurance carrier (Colorado Casualty Insurance Co.) denied coverage (and filed a lawsuit) for the $3.3 million in costs the…
NY: Cashier at Bellmore Payless Store Accused of Identity Theft
A Long Island shoe store employee is accused of stealing security information from customers’ credit cards and making duplicate cards. Police say the cashier at a Bellmore Payless store used a “skimming” device to scan the magnetic strip of security information from the credit cards of 11 customers. Police say he used the cards to…
(follow-up) Latvians to be deported for role in Davidson Companies extortion plot
Some breaches continue to tie up resources for years. The Davidson Companies breach, first revealed in January 2008, seems to be one of them. Even though the lawsuit against the firm was settled in November, in April, FINRA fined them, and some attempted extortionists were indicted. Now there’s yet another update to the story. Travis…