In the justice system: Marsha Billock-Strahm pled not guilty when she appeared in Toledo’s U.S. District Court June 22 to face charges of aggravated identity theft, false credit card applications, identity theft, and theft of mail while she was a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. More. Yi Feng Reid and Yu Jane…
Category: Breach Incidents
Sutter Employee Info Found on Broken Laptop
Thousands of Sacramento area Sutter Health employees are being warned that their personal information may have been leaked after a computer repair shop found the data on an old laptop that had been brought in for repair. Sutter Health is notifying about 6,000 former and current employees about the possibility that their social security numbers…
Exec Who Hacked Friends for Sales Gets Probation
A sales executive who used personal information to guess passwords, hack into e-mail accounts and listen in on conference calls at his friends’ companies was sentenced to probation Friday — a punishment the victims said was too lenient. David Goldenberg, 47, of Oceanside, N.Y., was fined $1,000 and sentenced to three years probation Friday for…
Prescription Database Breach Could Cost Contractor
The hack of the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program may have serious consequences for contractor Northrop Grumman. The company had received a 10-year $2.3 billion state contract to upgrade the state’s computer system. According to stories in the Washington Post and Daily Press, the state has had issues with Northrop Grumman over the past few years…
CFTC Fines Interbank for Security Breach
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission today simultaneously filed and settled charges against Interbank FX, LLC (Interbank), ordering Interbank to pay a $200,000 civil monetary penalty for violating rules designed to protect the confidential personal information of consumers. The CFTC order also requires Interbank to establish a comprehensive security program that provides administrative, technical, and…
Broadridge Financial Breach Exposes Dynegy Shareholder Info
Broadridge Financial Solutions,Inc. provides proxy services for clients, including the processing, distribution and tabulation of Annual Meeting Proxy materials for registered shareholders of publically traded companies. On June 2, 2009, the firm inadvertently disclosed Dynegy shareholder information including name, address, Social Security number and other account information to another client. Broadridge notified the shareowners by…