A Belleville woman was sentenced Friday to more than four years in federal prison for fraud. Jennifer Lynn Schoenbeck, 31, was convicted of three counts wire fraud, four counts mail fraud and one count aggravated identity theft, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She pleaded guilty to the charges on June…
Category: Breach Incidents
Hacking Takes Lead as Top Cause of Data Breaches
Hacking has topped human error as the top cause of reported data breaches for the first time since such tracking began in 2007, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2009 Breach Report. In its report, titled “Data Breaches: The Insanity Continues,” the non-profit ITRC found that 19.5 percent of reported breaches were due to…
Heartland in $60 mln settlement agreement with Visa
Reuters is reporting: Heartland Payment Systems Inc (HPY.N) said it reached a $60 million settlement agreement with Visa Inc (V.N), under which it will pay issuers of Visa-branded credit and debit cards for data security breach claims. Heartland, the fifth-largest payments processor in the United States, said the settlement was with respect to losses issuers…
8 jailed for personal data scam in S China
A man was sentenced to a year and a half behind bars in the country’s first-known case of violating the security of personal information on Sunday, local media reported Monday. Zhou Jianping, a resident of Zhuhai, Guangdong province, set up a private investigation company in the provincial capital Guangzhou two years ago and sold personal…
OR: Hackers crack security on Eugene school employee info
KVAL reports: Hackers breached the security a computer server containing the names, phone numbers and employee ID numbers of current and former Eugene School District employees, the district said Tuesday. The server in question did not contain other personal information but was attached to servers that contain Social Security numbers and other sensitive data, the…
(update) Penn State malware incident affected Schuylkill campus
The Associated Press reports that the previously unidentified Penn State campus affected by a malware breach is its branch campus in Schuylkill County.