Die Krankheitskarte web site reports: German health insurance company (or rather: sickness fund) “BKK Gesundheit” was eager to outsource its telephone hotline to a virtual call center. In their home offices, the untrained workers then could retrieve data they weren’t allowed to see, including medical diagnoses. They all had access to „an unneccessary huge amount…
Category: Breach Incidents
St. Petersburg telemarketer eavesdropped to steal credit card numbers, authorities say
Katie Sanders and Kameel Stanley report: A St. Petersburg man has been charged with stealing customers’ credit card numbers from a marketing company he worked for to buy nearly $30,000 in dinners, limos and other luxuries. After a four-month investigation, deputies arrested Christopher Albert Fregapane, 25, of 4544 40th Ave. N on a felony charge…
Minn. restautant worker accused of stealing credit card data, police search for second suspect
Boyd Huppert reports: In the end it was just too big a coincidence to ignore. Several people with fraudulent charges on their credit cards had all eaten at the T.G.I. Friday’s in Coon Rapids and had all been waited on by the same server. That server was arrested Thursday at his home in Coon Rapids,…
ING Fund client data exposed on the web for 18 months
On January 25, when an ING customer discovered that she could access client information on the ingfunds.com web site, she notified her stockbroker. In investigating the situation, ING discovered that since August 2008, a file containing the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and account numbers of 106 ING shareholders had been available on the web…
IN: 9 claim tax return ID theft
WBBM reports: The IRS and police in northwest Indiana are looking into allegations of identity theft of people who claimed someone had filed tax returns for them before they filed their own returns. There are nine people who have filed identity theft complaints with the East Chicago, Ind. police department. The Northwest Indiana Times reports…
Shell staff details leaked to campaign groups
Ed Crooks provides more background on a breach involving Shell employee contact information: The database, from Shell’s internal directory, gives names and telephone numbers for its workforce worldwide, including some home numbers used for business. The e-mail was ostensibly sent by disaffected staff calling for a “peaceful corporate revolution” at the company. The database was…