Thanks to Dave Shettler of OSF, 131 breach reports submitted to Maine in 2008 are now uploaded and available to the public as primary sources. Our efforts to obtain more breach reports under FOI continue, but OSF could really use some volunteers to help enter all of the newly acquired records in the database. If…
Category: Breach Incidents
CCS Security Breach May Not Be 1st
Donna Willis provides some additional information on the breach involving Columbus City School employees: […] NBC 4’s Ana Jackson GOT ANSWERS and found out this incident might not have been the district’s first security breach. NBC 4 found out the district ran into a similar problem last year. A district employee whom detectives believe was…
WA: Customers’ data stolen from store
Checking account and credit card numbers of customers who shopped at the Spokane Valley Northwest Bedding store Friday and Saturday were stolen over the weekend, officials said. No signs of forced entry to the business at 14102 E. Sprague Ave. were found. Northwest Bedding’s alarm system notified police about 6 p.m. Saturday, Reagan said. Source…
AL: Nursing assistant wanted for ID theft of nursing home resident
Lynne Jones reports: Authorities are looking for a former nursing home worker after an 98 year old resident’s identity was stolen. Investigators with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Identity Theft Unit believe Jacqueline Anne Lumpkin, 48, of Birmingham used the stolen identity to obtain more than $5,000 dollars worth of goods and services. Three warrants…
MS: Credit card fraud suspects sought
From the please-retrain-the-employees-dept: Metro Crime Stoppers is offering up to $1,000 for tips leading to the location and arrest of two suspects involved in several credit card purchasing scams committed in the Hattiesburg area – the most recent on Jan. 5 at Hattiesburg Cycles in the 6400 block of U.S. 49. Suspects entered the business,…
Ca: Five more arrested in debit card ring
Alex Cooper reports: Durham Region police arrested five more men yesterday in connection with a debit card skimming ring that has been operating in the Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal areas, police said today. […] At the bail hearing Dec. 3, five more suspects — who attended court to support the seven accused — were also…