Travis County [Texas] deputies have arrested a man who they say is responsible for hundreds of cases of identity theft. Piles of checks, drivers’ licenses, gift cards and receipts blanketed a table at the Travis County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday. “We recovered 70 fake Texas licenses and ID cards, 628 stolen and counterfeit checks,” said Detective…
Category: Breach Incidents
Proposed law would keep inmates from data
The UPI reports: <blockquote>The U.S. Social Security Administration plans to propose legislation to ban prisoners from access to data that could be used for identity theft, officials say. Most states have laws barring inmates in training or work programs from seeing Social Security numbers and other personal data, The Kansas City (Mo.) Star reports. But…
Reconsidering the retailers’ attempts to keep their identities secret
Over on The Tech Herald, Steve Ragan takes a somewhat more sympathetic view to J.C. Penney than I have generally taken. Steve writes, in part: Most of the media reports are painting the picture that J.C. Penney suffered a breach and did nothing. That isn’t entirely true. The company cooperated fully when asked and it…
MyPilotStore.com hack results in false charges on customers’ cards
On February 18, MyPlane, dba MyPilotStore.com, discovered that their database containing their customers’ names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and credit card information had been hacked. According to the firm, some customers received a “nominal fake charge to their credit card by a company not associated with us.” By letter dated March 19, MyPilotStore notified…
The Supreme Court confirms a penalty of 361,208 euros on Iberia for losing passengers’ personal data
The English seems a bit awkward, but the message seems clear. It seems like it took this incident over seven years to get to Spain’s Supreme Court. The Supreme Court confirms a penalty of 361,208 euros on Iberia for losing passengers’ personal data The Supreme Court has confirmed a penalty of 361,208 euros Iberia imposed…
Stolen council laptops contained sensitive information on pupils
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Warwickshire County Council in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) following the theft of two laptops and the loss of a memory stick. The laptops, which were unencrypted and not physically secured or locked away, were stolen from council offices. They held sensitive personal information relating to…