According to a summary of a news story in NOS offered by Karin Spaink, a Dutch agency that resolves consumer disputes with businesses was making everyone’s files available to anyone who logged in to the site. The Dispute Committee handles more than 10,000 complaints per year, and files going back to 2005 could be retrieved….
Category: Breach Incidents
Two more skimmers in the news this week
From the It-Could-Have-Been-Worse dept: The Denver Post reports that a skimmer was found on the ground at a First Bank branch in Westminister. Apparently the adhesive didn’t work out that well. The skimmer was found April 23, and according to the report, the ATM was last serviced March 22. So far, no word on how…
Bank of America uncovers insider security breach at Countrywide Financial in Texas
On April 30, in Bits ‘n Pieces, I reported an arrest in Texas that involved an insider at unnamed banks and mortgage companies. Subsequently, Sam LaGrone of Air Force Times reported on the case because the man arrested, Isaac McCrumby, was posing as an Air Force reservist during a crime spree that allegedly netted $500,000…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: As a follow-up to a breach covered on PogoWasRight.org last year, Anthony Wood, 45, a/k/a Anthony Bickerstaff, was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay $67,292 in restitution for using stolen personal information of customers at Commerce Bank in Mount Laurel. Co-defendants Jennifer Mullner, a former loan services…
4 more employees gone after sneaking into octuplets’ files
Sarah Tully of The Orange County Register reports: Four more hospital employees this week were forced out of their jobs for sneaking into the octuplets’ mother’s private medical records, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed today. Previously, another 15 employees were terminated and eight were disciplined for improperly looking at mother Nadya Suleman’s documents at Kaiser Permanente…
NY: Thieves raid accounts of Staten Island bank
Barton Horowitz of the Staten Island Advance reports: An ATM security breach at SI Bank & Trust’s Oakwood branch that went undetected for more than a month is under investigation by the FBI. Apparently, bank officials were not aware of the crime until the stealth thieves began cashing in on the stolen data. … Fifty…