Alexi Mostrous reports: The personal details of millions of job seekers have been stolen in the largest data protection theft in Britain, The Times has learned. Hackers gained access to confidential information provided by 4.5 million people to Monster.co.uk, the online recruitment site. Names, passwords, telephone numbers, email addresses, birth dates, sex and ethnicity data…
Category: Breach Incidents
FL: Fort Pierce women arrested on charges of identity theft
Laurie K. Blandford reports: More than 300 Treasure Coast and South Florida residents were discovered to be victims of identity theft, and the number continues to grow. St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office held a press conference Monday afternoon to announce the early morning searches of the Fort Pierce residences of Tychell Letrein Robinson, 33, at…
Milford woman sought in long-term ID theft
Terri Sanginiti reports: Authorities are looking for a 27-year-old Milford woman who has been using another woman’s identity since June 2005 to obtain jobs and medical benefits. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Virdiana Hernandez, charging her with 45 counts of of identity theft and forgery, said Milford police spokesman Detective Dwight Young….
WI: Personal data was stored on laptop swiped from Madison city hall
Dean Mosiman reports: Madison officials and employees are complaining that Social Security numbers were stored on a laptop computer stolen from a city office Friday. The laptop was recovered this morning, but it’s unclear if sensitive information was stolen. Any official or employee — except those in the police, fire and transit departments — who…
UK: Financial Workers Regularly Forget USB Sticks at Dry Cleaners
From the this-is-not-what-we-meant-by-cleaning-your-drive dept: As data loss reaches an all time high, a new survey shows financial workers in the UK are regularly forgetting USB sticks at the dry cleaners. According to a survey by Texas-based data security firm Credant Technologies, 9,000 USB sticks were forgotten in people’s pockets in the UK last year as…
NZ man finds US army files on MP3 player
A New Zealand man has found confidential United States military files on an MP3 player he bought at an op shop in the US. Chris Ogle, 29, from Whangarei, bought the player from an Oklahoma thrift shop for $NZ18 ($A14.50), and found the files when he hooked it up to his computer, TV One News…