Dan Bowens reports: Cases in which debit card information has been stolen are cropping up across North Carolina, and officials said Tuesday that thousands of customers could be affected. The State Employees Credit Union informed about 300 customers in recent days that their account information had been obtained by skimmers and used to make withdrawals…
Category: Breach Incidents
Major International Hacker Pleads Guilty For Massive Attack On U.s. Retail And Banking Networks
Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to hack into computer networks supporting major American retail and financial organizations, and to steal data relating to tens of millions of credit and debit cards, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey…
Providence Health Plans glitch exposes personal data
Mike Benner and KGW.com Staff report: PORTLAND, Ore. — Providence Health Plans is re-issuing thousands of insurance cards after personal information was accidentally sent to the wrong policy-holders. Officials with Providence Health Plans say about 4,500 mailings were sent out with the incorrect group and member ID numbers, meaning that some policy holders received others’…
RockYou Sued for Failing to Protect the Personal Data of its 32 Million Customers
From the press release: An Indiana man filed a class action lawsuit Monday against RockYou, the developer of popular online applications and services for use with social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, after RockYou failed to safeguard the highly sensitive personal information of him and 32 million others. The lawsuit alleges that RockYou…
Top 10 Worst Data Losses or Breaches, updated
It’s been a while since I last revised my list of the largest breaches or data loss incidents worldwide, and the end of the year seems like a good time to look back at what may have been the worst incidents ever in terms of numbers. Remember when the stolen V.A. laptop made headlines in…
Dentist’s Account Missing Nearly $400K
There have been some bizarre happenings down in St. John’s County, Florida this month. First Dr. Robert Thousand, an oral surgeon, reported that his phone lines were being tied up by a barrage of incoming 900-phone sex calls. Then another oral surgeon in the area, Dr. Bradley Cherry, reported the same problem with the phone…