As an update to an incident previously reported, Gerald Garner Jr. reports: After learning that a handful of sensitive documents had been “discarded” in a local dumpster, Socorro County and county housing authority officials launched an investigation into the matter. In a joint agency press release — issued Monday, Sept. 28 — officials contend the…
Category: Breach Incidents
UNC security breach less severe than feared
As an update to a previously reported breach: A hacker who wormed into a UNC Chapel Hill computer server may not have gotten access to as much information as officials originally feared. UNC School of Medicine officials said last week that a security breach had left data related to as many as 236,000 women enrolled…
700,000 Express Scripts members notified of extortion demands (update 2)
As previously reported here Express Scripts recently updated their breach report on the incident from 2008 involving an extortion demand. Now Dina Wisenberg Brin of Dow Jones Newswires provides some additional details, including the statistic that Express Scripts has now sent out approximately 700,000 individual notification letters, total. The company has not revealed how many…
Two Romanians to face phishing charges in US
Robert McMillan of IDG News Service reports: The U.S. Department of Justice has extradited two Romanians to the U.S., where they face charges in connection with a massive phishing scam. The two men, Petru Belbita, 25, and Cornel Tonita, 28, are accused of setting up fake phishing sites designed to steal user names and passwords…
File Cabinet Purchase Leads To Identity Theft Concerns
Some former and current Panola School District, Oklahoma employees are learning that some of their employment records from 1998 and 1999, including W-2’s, were in file cabinets sold to the public. Now the people who bought the cabinets are declining to turn the records over to the school district without a court order and are…
Jail chaos as lag hacker is left in charge of computer system
Justin Penrose reports: A jailed hacker shut down a prison’s entire computer system – after bosses gave him the job of programming it. Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to £6.5million using forged credit cards over the internet, was approached after governors wanted to create an internal TV station but needed a…