Didi Tang reports: Sensitive personal information — including Social Security numbers — for 565 foreign students at MSU was leaked this month when a university office sent an e-mail message with the data inadvertently attached. The school is investigating the incident and will contact all international students, offering answers and options to guard against identity…
Category: Breach Incidents
ZA: Three waiters to go on trial
Three Kauai Juice waiters are to go on trial next month in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court on fraud and conspiracy charges. The charges relate to the use of credit card readers and encoding devices, for the manufacture of fake credit cards. […] Prosecutor Mary Naidoo alleges the trio conspired to make false cards…
Payroll manager gets 5 years, told to repay $500,000
Andrew Galvin reports: A former payroll manager at Advanced Medical Optics was sentenced to five years in state prison today after he pleaded guilty last month to charges that he stole more than $487,000 from his employer, prosecutors said. Robert Lee Winn, 43, of Norco, used the Santa Ana company’s payroll computer system to make…
NC: Piedmont Credit Union members report fraud
Yet another payment processor? Is this related to other incidents reported this past week or something else? Who knows…. they don’t tell us. Denice Thibodeau reports: About 15 members of Piedmont Credit Union reported fraudulent purchases on their Visa-issued debit cards Tuesday, according to credit union president Tom Shields. Shields said people reported money missing…
WV: Local health department warns 11,000 people of possible ID theft
Eric Eyre reports: The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department is sending 11,000 letters to people who received flu shots from the agency since October, warning them that their personal information may have been stolen by a former department temporary worker. Jameelah Jossiah, 24, a former flu clinic billing clerk, was charged with computer fraud after allegedly making…
IN: Call centre manager in the frame over ID scam
John Leyden reports: An Indian call centre manager is under investigation over allegations he used the identities of Brits to run an insurance fraud scam. Edward Burn, 30, has reportedly confessed to using the details of 12 people to make fictitious insurance claims valued at £56,900 through insurance firm Aviva, whose brands include Norwich Union….