A police complaint has been filed against eight persons on Friday for their involvement in hacking the online bank account of Gujarat Insecticide Ltd at GIDC here and transferring Rs 7.39 lakh. “They transferred the amount to a different account and pocketed the money,” said an official. The company’s account in Bank of Baroda was…
Category: Breach Incidents
WA: Hacker hits county Web site
San Juan County’s Web site was hacked January 15. The county Information Technology department is warning computer users to keep a close eye on their personal data if they accessed the site that day, although it does not appear that any data was compromised. About 8:35 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 morning the County’s website…
TN: Howard Student Investigated for Identity Theft
David Carroll reports: A Howard High School student is being investigated on several counts of identity theft, according to officials from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office and the Chattanooga Police Department. The student, reportedly a 15-year-old male, has been the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Fraud Department in Chattanooga and School Resource Officers…
OR: Stolen laptop creates a stir at Southwestern
Erica Rush reports: The privacy of hundreds of community college students is put at risk, after someone steals a laptop computer from the campus at Southwestern Oregon Community College. The school issued a press release on Friday stating that a new computer that contained student records for approximately 200 current and former students at Southwestern…
Ca: Company sends criminal record to total stranger in Simcoe
Mark Bonokoski reports: When the brown manila envelope arrived in the mail the other day at his home in rural Simcoe — the Toronto sender’s name discreetly reading P. Canada — Dave Eberly assumed his pardon had finally come through. […] And when that manila envelope arrived in the mail, Eberly thought it would be…
MA: Businesses look to restart data security rule process
Michael P. Norton of the State House News Service reports: A coalition featuring some of the biggest businesses in the nation called on the Patrick administration Thursday to again delay implementation of regulations to protect against identity theft, saying the pending rules are unworkable and will hurt job creation. […] The letter was signed by…