Aneesh Phadnis reports: A junior lawyer, who uploaded over 4,000 documents related to suits and litigations from his office server to personal email accounts, has been booked for data theft. On Friday, the Vakola police arrested Chittaranjan Das after his employer, advocate Rajesh Sharma, complained that he had transferred documents from the office server to…
Category: Breach Incidents
(follow-up) Data theft puts LPL clients at risk
Bruce Kelly of Investment News has more on the recent LPL Financial breach reported previously here. Kelly reports that LPL’s chief risk officer, John McDermott, says that LPL advisers guilty of mishandling or losing client data face an escalating series of punitive measures — “starting with a formal reprimand, then fines and ultimately termination.” McDermott…
Cedar Falls Pita Pit Customers Experience Credit Card Fraud
Claire Kellett reports: Cedar Falls police are investigating an unusually high amount of credit card fraud just in the past few days. The department says isolated cases are common, but it is receiving enough reports to consider asking the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation for help. Police say this is affecting both debit cards and…
(update) Credit card fraud reports still growing
The Stillwater case keeps growing….. and in this installment, it seems that it’s less clear how the breach occurred than previously thought. Peter Cox reports: Police have taken nearly 200 reports from people affected by credit card numbers apparently stolen from the Mad Capper Bar and Restaurant in downtown Stillwater. Investigator Kyle Sykes, who is…
Hundreds Exposed to I-D Theft in Sparks Store Closing
Ed Pearce reports: The Hollywood Video store in the Baring Village Shopping Center like others in the chain is now closed, its shelves empty, but if you were a customer there and filled out a membership form that paperwork and all its information was left free for the taking out back when the store closed….
Atlanta investigates security breach
Eric Stirgus reports: Atlanta officials said Friday they are investigating how personal information of about 1,000 current and former city Fire Rescue employees found its way to the Internet. The information was used on a personal laptop and then accessed by another computer, city officials said in a news release. It included the names, addresses,…