From The Buffalo News: An identity theft case involving several clients of Independent Health was closed this week with a guilty plea and prison sentence, Amherst police said. Henry O. Johnson III, 30, of Kensington Avenue, Buffalo, pleaded guilty to identity theft and was sentenced to 1x to 4 years in prison. According to Detective…
Category: Breach Incidents
St. Louis police say computer was attacked
B. Mayhall reports: 24 people may have had their personal information compromised following the cyber attack of one computer in the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, authorities said. The attack came through an e-mail in February. The department’s website was not attacked in any way, according to police spokeswoman Erica Van Ross. Read more in…
UK Border Agency and Identity and Passport Service: when employees breach privacy
In Parliament Wednesday, Home Secretary Alan Johnson responded to a question by Chris Gayling: Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 18 January 2010, Official Report, column 29W, on departmental data protection, what activities constituted inappropriate use of information in each case of disciplinary action…
Former waitress at P.F. Chang’s pleads guilty to skimming customer data
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Chibuzo Okafor, 24, of Rosedale, New York, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud. According to court documents and…
Monoprice.com Shuttered After Fraud Complaints
Brian Krebs reports: Audio visual cabling giant monoprice.com shut down its Web site – possibly for the next couple of weeks – while it investigates the possible compromise of its customer credit and debit card information. Vincent Lim, monoprice.com’s operations manager, said the company took the site offline around midnight on Friday, Mar. 5, after…
Stolen US Bank laptop contained customer data
Sun News Staff reports: On March 1, a financial advisor at US Bank, 5154 Wilson Mills, reported a laptop missing from his desk. The bank assistant manager noticed the laptop missing, but did not report it because she knew the financial advisor sometimes took the laptop home. The advisor told police the laptop contained sensitive…