Roshell Demps was hired to help Miami-Dade Schools personnel obtain their employee benefits…. Authorities say Demps used one employee’s personal information to open a credit card account — and then went on a spending spree. […] Most recently, [Demps] worked in the office that oversees healthcare benefits, life insurance and workers compensation. When authorities went…
Category: Breach Incidents
Stolen IDs help man pay for penis and breast enlargements
A Philadelphia man who authorities say stole the identities of eight Lehigh Valley residents and racked up $88,000 of bills in their names — some of which was used to buy penis enlargements for him and a friend and breast implants for two women — has pleaded guilty to more than 40 crimes, according to…
UPS encrypts laptops and smartphones after data breach
Parcel service UPS has encrypted all its UK laptops and smartphones, following a breach of the Data Protection Act last year. The firm has also signed an undertaking to assure the Information Commissioner’s Office that personal information will be kept securely in future. An unencrypted, password-protected laptop was stolen from a UPS employees while on…
Heartland CEO on Data Breach: QSAs Let Us Down
For Heartland Payment Systems Inc. CEO Robert Carr, the year did not start off well, to say the least. In January, the Princeton, N.J.-based provider of credit and debit processing, payment and check management services was forced to acknowledge it had been the target of a data breach — in hindsight, possibly the largest to…
Hackers strike UC Berkeley again
Hackers have struck again at UC Berkeley computers, this time at the Graduate School of Journalism, the university announced Tuesday. In a statement from the university’s Department of Public Affairs, the school said a hacker may have gained access to “Social Security numbers and/or dates of birth” of 493 applicants to the journalism school between…
Spam uncovers career center security breach
A spam e-mail uncovered a potentially dangerous security breach. The potential problem centers around a Nashville organization that helps people get jobs and improve their career. One hundred and sixty people are now in the process of being notified over concerns that their names and Social Security numbers were exposed on the Internet. It turns…