Brian Krebs writes: In early 2008, while federal investigators were busy investigating disgraced financier Robert Allen Stanford for his part in an alleged $8 billion fraudulent investment scheme, Eastern European hackers were quietly hoovering up tens of thousands customer financial records from the Bank of Antigua, an institution formerly owned by the Stanford Group. […]…
Category: Breach Incidents
NY: Documents found in mall parking lot
WABC reports: […] The confidential papers were found by a man at the Palisades Mall in Rockland County. To make it worse, and what really got the man angry, is that no one at the mall seemed interested in taking those documents back. […] The applications are for a clothing store named Metropark, a Los…
TX: Medical Records Found on Street
KRGV in Texas reports that a citizen found files full of medical records from a home health care agency scattered on the street: Jose Diaz’s walk to the grocery store led him to files with names of people, their address, phone number and social security numbers. Most of documents are from late December. They’re medical…
(NARA update) More potential victims of identity theft notified of hard-drive loss
Elise Castelli reports: The National Archives and Records Administration last month warned 150,000 more people who interacted with the Clinton administration that their personal information may be at risk after a hard drive was lost. The December letters were the second batch sent in connection with the March data loss. Previously, NARA mailed more than…
Four men arrested in PA on ID theft charges
The Associated Press reports that four men have been arrested and charged in Pennsylvania with running a multistate identity theft operation. Bensalem police say they recovered documents — including licenses and credit cards — listing the names of about 100 victims when they made the arrests Monday. Police charged 31-year-old Earl Johnson, 30-year-old Armone Stanley,…
CA: ID theft ringleader sentenced in Fresno
Russell Clemings reports: The alleged leader of a far-flung identity theft ring was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $91,000 in restitution to some 50 victims. Alfred Darnell Ford was accused of running a network of accomplices who used stolen credit cards and other information to buy…