David Morrison reports: The $889 million Los Angeles Firemen’s Credit Union has notified some of its more than 28,000 members that private information may have been compromised. The May 10 letter from CEO Michael Maestro said that “an extremely small percentage” of member files were “not properly moved” when the CU relocated from an old…
Category: Breach Incidents
Facebook IDs hacker who tried to sell 1.5M accounts
Robert McMillan reports: Facebook has identified the hacker named Kirllos who tried to sell 1.5 million Facebook accounts recently in underground hacking forums. According to the investigators at the social networking site, he’s guilty of both hacking and hyperbole. Kirllos was first spotted by researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense group a few weeks after he claimed…
Romanians charged in $182G bank fraud scheme
Amanda Pinto reports: Four Romanian citizens have been indicted on charges related to a multi-state ATM scam through which they allegedly installed “skimming devices” and pinhole cameras in order to steal customers’ banking information. Two of the men employed the scam at People’s United Bank in Madison in September 2009, and used the information to…
UCSF employee charged with wire fraud
Henry K. Lee reports: A UCSF Medical Center employee has been charged in federal court with wire fraud for allegedly using the Social Security numbers of fellow workers to complete online health surveys so that he could receive hundreds of $100 vouchers. From January to April, Cam Giang of San Francisco used other UC employees’…
Laptop stolen from VA contractor contains veterans’ personal data
Bob Brewin reports on a breach that I don’t think we knew about here: A laptop belonging to a contractor working for the Veterans Affairs Department was stolen earlier this year and the personal data on hundreds of veterans stored on the computer was not encrypted, a violation of a VA information technology policy, said…
Stolen Laptop Exposes Personal Data on 207,000 Army Reservists
Brian Krebs reports: A laptop stolen from a government contractor last month contained names, addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 207,000 U.S. Army reservists, Krebsonsecurity.com has learned. The U.S. Army Reserve Command began alerting affected reservists on May 7 via e-mail. Col. Jonathan Dahms, chief public affairs for the Army Reserve, said the…