Matt Hanley reports: An identity theft ring uncovered in Oswego last year involved more than just thefts in Kendall County. Police across the Fox Valley quietly made arrests they hoped would lead to other suspects, while Oswego’s larger investigation continued for nearly a year. This week, Oswego police announced four people had been charged with…
Category: Breach Incidents
Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show
Kim Zetter reports: Hackers seeking source code from Google, Adobe and dozens of other high-profile companies used unprecedented tactics that combined encryption, stealth programming and an unknown hole in Internet Explorer, according to new details released by researchers at anti-virus firm McAfee. “We have never ever, outside of the defense industry, seen commercial industrial companies…
NYC: Audit Report on the Controls of the Administration for Children’s Services Over Personally Identifiable Information
The comptroller’s December 2009 audit report can be found here. ACS collects a lot of PII on many children in NYC, including medical information, complaints of child abuse, etc. The most significant audit findings included inadequate password security for the local network and Blackberry devices. With respect to the former, the audit found 15 instances…
Western Michigan U. exposed student info on web
On December 14, Western Michigan University discovered that some student employees’ names, addresses, department, and Social Security numbers were exposed on a WMU web page “for a brief period of time.” According to a notification sent by ID Experts to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on December 22, the university secured the information immediately…
(follow-up) Kr: Website not responsible for data theft
This is one of the breaches in the top 10 list, where I had previously noted that some sources said 18 million were affected by the hack, while Auction claimed 10.8 million. Whatever the correct number, the online service was found not to be responsible for the breach. Joong Ang Daily Reports: A local court…
Russian arrested in Kenya with 107 ATM cards
Bernard Momanyi reports from Nairobi: A man who claims to be a Russian was arrested in Nairobi on Thursday after he was found withdrawing money from an automated teller machine (ATM) while in possession of 107 fake bank cards. The man was arrested at the CFC Stanbic branch on Kimathi Street at about noon, police…