New information is coming to light about the case against a man from Luzerne County accused of hacking into a casino’s computer system to get revenge. Investigators call Leo Hornbaker, III a computer whiz who used his smarts to try to get back at the Mount Airy Casino According to court papers, Hornbaker was a…
Category: Breach Incidents
MUFJ Nicos loses data on credit card customers
Credit card company Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos Co. said Thursday that it has lost key information on about 197,000 customers but that the data are unlikely to be leaked to unauthorized sources or abused in electronic transactions. […] Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos said an internal investigation revealed the company may have mistakenly discarded the data, which were…
FL: Man accused of stealing credit card numbers
It was the furtive swiping under the counter that caught the customer’s attention. Curious, the customer leaned over the counter to see the cashier swiping his debit card into a portable scanner. A similar device was hanging on the cashier’s key chain. Before his credit card number could be stolen, the customer grabbed the device…
CO: Personal data sent in error to co-workers
The Department of Corrections’ inspector general’s office is investigating the release of the personal financial records of more than 1,000 staff to more than 100 co-workers. The records were sent by e-mail from the DOC payroll office to a total of 103 employees at 5:03 p.m. Friday, said Katherine Sanguinetti, DOC spokeswoman. A payroll employee…
AU Storm clients outraged over doctored files
Clients of Storm Financial (Storm) have claimed they received copies of strangers’ files instead of their own when they applied to Colonial Geared Investments (CGI) for their loan documents in the months after the advice firm’s collapse. In a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services inquiry into financial products and…
Mortgage records found in KS dumpster
Over the weekend, client records from a defunct Wichita mortgage-brokerage firm wound up in the Dumpster outside the Holiday Inn at Kellogg and Rock Road. The owner of the mortgage business said it was an accident and apologized, vowing to make sure the records are properly shredded. […] The records found at the Holiday Inn…