Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is notifying current and former students who were enrolled in psychology professor Julie Kontos’ classes from spring 2004 through the summer of 2006 about the possible loss of their social security numbers when a laptop was stolen from a campus office. […] “We have identified and are in the process of…
Category: Breach Incidents
MD: Possible identity theft reported at Mercy
Brent Jones reports: Baltimore police are investigating a security breach at Mercy Medical Center that left an undisclosed number of patient records open to possible identity theft, according to the Maryland attorney general’s office. The hospital’s vice president for corporate compliance sent a letter to the affected former patients on Monday, saying that a former…
Cops: Social Security numbers stolen from Woodbury company
Joseph Mallia reports: A former employee broke into a Woodbury financial services company, photocopied customers’ Social Security numbers and bank reference numbers and took the photocopied data with him when he left, Nassau police said Tuesday. Christopher Pemberton, 31, was arrested Monday and charged with burglary. He had worked at Obsidian for six days in…
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to improve data security
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has pledged to improve the security of patients’ personal information after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it in breach of the Data Protection Act. The ICO was provided with a report from the Director of ICT regarding the theft of a laptop computer from the Audiology Department. The…
Four indicted for RBS WorldPay hack
Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, Russia; Oleg Covelin, 28, of Chisinau, Moldova; and a person known only as “Hacker 3;” have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta, Ga., on charges of hacking into a computer network operated by the Atlanta-based credit card processing company RBS…
Two plead guilty in WaMu skimming operation
Romulus Bacian, 40, and Marius Enache Csapay, 45, both of Romania, pleaded guilty today to their roles in a conspiracy to steal ATM/debit card account information from hundreds of Washington Mutual customers using “skimming” equipment they illegally affixed to ATMs around the metro Atlanta area. According to various sources: beginning in the fall of 2007…