From The Australian: Victorian police are investigating a massive identity fraud involving the personal details of thousands of Australians that have been available on a blog site for more than a month. The data, discovered by The Australian, includes thousands of Visa, Mastercard and American Express numbers, including expiry dates, together with home addresses, phone…
Category: Breach Incidents
UK: Lost laptop exposes thousands of pension records
John Leyden of The Register reports on the latest data protection cockup: A lost laptop containing the personal data of 109,000 Pensions Trust’s members has sparked the latest in a growing list of information security breach alerts. The missing machine was stolen from the offices of NorthgateArinso, suppliers of the Pensions Trust’s computerised pensions administration…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: In Ohio, Glenn E. Spencer Jr., a restaurant worker at N Two Deep Fish & Chicken was arrested and charged with using stolen credit card numbers to steal nearly $5,000. It wasn’t clear whether he stole the numbers from customers or co-workers. More. Thea Ann Coogan of California was sentenced to…
Aetna server compromised; 65,000 notified
Tom Murphy of Associated Press reports that Aetna, Inc. learned that a web site maintained by a vendor had been compromised earlier this month. Files on the web site included about 450,000 email addresses for job applicants, but even more ominously, names, addresses, employment histories, and Social Security numbers of about 65,000 current and former…
Students’ Social Security Nos. Found In Dumpster
KYPost.com reports that a four-page list with more than 140 Warren County Virtual school students’ names, addresses, birth dates, and social security numbers was found in a recycling dumpster. The school is investigating the breach.
Eighteen charged in NY bank fraud, ID theft scheme
Reuters reports that 18 people have been indicted in New York City for operating a bank fraud and identity theft scheme that resulted in the cashing of more than 1,000 counterfeit checks at several large banks. The defendants are accused of obtaining bank customers’ personal data with the help of insiders who they recruited for…