ModBee reports: Turlock Police found stolen property belonging to dozens of victims when they conducted a probation search on Tuesday at the home of a woman who last month was arrested on suspicion of breaking into a mailbox. Detectives, along with Community Outreach Response and Engagement officers and Stanislaus County probation officers, searched the home of 33-year-old…
Category: Breach Incidents
University of Georgia student and employee data found in data dump
What appears to be a combination list from various databases related to the University of Georgia appeared on a public paste site yesterday. Although the University of Georgia has disclosed a number of breaches in the past six years, none of the breaches this site knows about would account for all the data in this…
Has W-2 fraud overtaken healthcare as the most lucrative target for cyber-criminals?
Michael Bruemmer, a vice president with the Experian Data Breach Resolution group, poses a question about whether W-2 fraud has become the most lucrative target for criminals when attacking the healthcare sector. But the data he points to – some of which is based on the work DataBreaches.net is doing with Steve Ragan of Salted Hash,…
Laptops stolen from UC-Santa Cruz instructor’s home contained students’ information
That this is still happening in 2017 is …. disheartening. From a notification being sent by the University of California – Santa Cruz: We are contacting you regarding an incident involving the theft of a laptop that contained your personal information. What Happened? On January 13, 2017, two unencrypted laptops were stolen from the home…
It was a good day for dumpster divers…
Steve Barrett reports from Florida: An Orlando man searching for scrap metal Tuesday night reported finding thousands of financial documents ripe with people’s personal information tossed in a dumpster. For identity thieves, the documents would have been a gold mine of information. “(They contained) emails, phone numbers, date of birth, child’s date of birth, you…
Newnan Woman Sentenced for Student Financial Aid Fraud; Used Patients’ Info
NEWNAN, Ga. – Andrea R. Williams has been sentenced to six years and seven months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for using stolen identities to file dozens of fraudulent federal student aid applications. According to U.S. Attorney Horn, the charges and other information presented in court: From in or about…