Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Five people were indicted this week on wire fraud and other criminal charges stemming from a 2007 cybertheft in which nearly $450,000 was stolen from the bank accounts of the city of Carson, Calif. […] The alleged thieves used valid login credentials to access the city’s bank account and initiate both the…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: 1000 data breaches reported to the ICO
The Information Commissioner’s Office issued a press release and summary analysis of breaches: With the number of breaches involving people’s personal information reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reaching 1000, the privacy watchdog is urging organisations to minimise the risk of mistakes. Staff need simple procedures on how to handle personal information with appropriate…
FL: AT&T Info Dumped In Local’s Recycle Bin
As I noted earlier this month in discussing ABC’s coverage of firms just dumping paper records without shredding them, Florida law doesn’t seem to prohibit such disposal. Now there’s another story out of Florida, this one covered by News4Jax, that also involves improper disposal of personal and financial information on hundreds of people: Jessica Menendez…
Edmonton travel agency owner charged in scam
Cigdem Iltan reports: The owner of a southeast Edmonton travel agency has been charged with allegedly using stored credit card data to fraudulently take $50,000 from his customers. Gurmeet Singh Mankoo, Payless Travel’s owner, has been charged with a series of alleged frauds that took place at the business between late 2009 and early 2010….
HMRC mails wrong private info to 50,000 19,000 taxpayers
John Oates reports on another black eye for HMRC: Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs apologised today for sending out private information to 50,000 tax credit recipients. One taxpayer who contacted The Register said: “We received our tax credit notice with our National Insurance details but on the back were two strangers’ work, childcare and pay…
PA: 2 Get Prison for Stealing ID’s of DUI Offenders
As a follow-up to a case previously reported here, Myles Snyder reports: Two Lancaster men will spend less than two years in prison for using the identities of drunken driving offenders in a identity theft scheme. John B. Spencer III, 29, was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 21 months imprisonment followed by three years…