Jeff Overley updates us on a previously reported breach: A Corona del Mar mortgage broker accused of dumping his clients’ financial information into public recycling bins has had his license suspended after declining to fight the allegations. According to state investigators, Paul Henry Reed, owner of Seaview Financial, closed his office in February, and boxes…
Category: Breach Incidents
How many computers were stolen from your school district?
Okay, I don’t know if this is some kind of dysrecord, but in an AP story on a Detroit teacher accused of pawning one of the district’s laptops, it says: More than 500 district computers have been stolen over the past six months. I wonder what the numbers are like in other major urban school…
Former United Way Employee Sentenced for Damaging Charity’s Computer Network
A former United Way employee, Luis Robert Altamirano, was sentenced today on charges of computer fraud. Altamarino to 18 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. In addition, the Court ordered him to pay more than $50,000 in restitution. Jeffery H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of…
Jacksonville Legal Aid worker accused of stealing clients’ identities
Paul Pinkham reports: A receptionist for Jacksonville Area Legal Aid surrendered Tuesday on charges she stole the identities of at least 20 clients and used the information to obtain thousands of dollars’ worth of payday loans. Tashannyo Adena Medley remained free on unsecured bail and was ordered to be in court Monday to answer charges…
Cobra.com hack exposed customer card data for 9,000
Almost five months after a security breach was first discovered, lawyers for Cobra Electronics Corporation notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that its web site at www.cobra.com had been hacked and customer card data might have been accessed. According to the letter from David E. Teitelbaum of Sidley Austin, Cobra was alerted to a…
Stolen Esai Inc. laptop had unencrypted employee data
FCI USA wasn’t the only firm notifying the New Hampshire Attorney General of a stolen laptop this week. By letter (pdf) dated November 16, attorneys for Eisai Inc. informed the state that a laptop was stolen from a Human Resources Department employee’s car in New Jersey on October 21. At least one file on the…