When nine restaurants in Louisiana and Mississippi filed lawsuits against Radiant Systems and its Louisiana distributor, they may have represented only the tip of a substantial iceberg of hacks affecting restaurants that used Radiant Systems’ Aloha POS system. It seems that the scope of the problem is first coming to the public’s attention approximately one…
Category: Breach Incidents
Ca: Province waited 7 months to notify public of sensitive security breach
Rob Shaw and Lindsay Kines report: The British Columbia government knew seven months ago about a serious security breach involving sensitive personal information from 1,400 income-assistance clients, yet only notified the affected people last week, the Victoria Times Colonist has learned. RCMP officers found the missing documents inside the Victoria home of a government worker…
Follow-up: Broker punished for dumping O.C. client data
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…
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…