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…
Category: Breach Incidents
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…
Mozilla shuts Firefox e-store after security breach
Mozilla shuttered its online store late Tuesday after finding out that the firm it hired to run the backend operations of the company’s e-tailing business had suffered a security breach. It was unclear whether the vendor, St. Louis-based GatewayCDI, which bills itself as a “promotional products distributor and incentive company,” notified Mozilla or whether the…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Gordon County authorities have arrested Sharon Kay Hoisington and charged her with two counts of receiving stolen property, and 12 counts of identity fraud. She is also the subject of investigations by the Calhoun Police, Murray County, Whitfield County, Bartow County Sheriff’s Offices, and the Dalton and Cartersville Police Departments. More….
Army National Guard laptop stolen
Members of the Army National Guard who could be affected by the theft of a laptop containing their personal data, will be notified through an official letter, National Guard officials said today. “I immediately requested a list of any Wisconsin soldiers that may be affected,” said Brig. Gen. Don Dunbar, Adjutant General of Wisconsin and…
Dr.InfoSec helps solve school data breach
Although the school district is not named, this sounds like the Fayetteville breach recently reported… On July 29th, as I was following up on a story that flashed across my Twitter stream about 30 certified employees of a school district finding themselves victims of ID theft, I found something that should not have been there….