A Palm Beach County resident pled guilty for his participation in a stolen identity tax refund fraud conspiracy involving students and other individuals’ personal identifying information (PII). Oniel Winston Scarlett, 28, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, to retain and conceal monies stolen from the United States, and to commit identity…
Category: Breach Incidents
Information on 154 million voters exposed in the cloud – again. (Updated)
MacKeeper Security Researcher Chris Vickery has found yet another misconfigured database with U.S. voter information and profiles. This one has 154 million records. See my report about it over on the Daily Dot. One day maybe our government or state attorneys general will start actually enforcing some data security on those who create these massive…
Janesville computer systems hit by virus, likely ‘ransomware’
Jessica Arp reports: Janesville (Wisconsin) officials said they’re still working to recover after a computer virus attacked their network last week. Information Technology Manager Gordy LaChance said it was caused by multiple employees opening compromised emails that immediately started gathering and reorganizing files in their system. Both emails looked like they were from businesses that…
Equifax service remains mum about client reports of tax refund fraud
Back in April, DataBreaches.net noted that Stanford University was notifying its employees about tax refund fraud. The fraud appeared to result from perpetrators downloading employees’ W-2 information from the university’s vendor, W-2 Express, and then using the info to file fraudulent returns. W-2 information typically includes an employee’s name and address, their wage and salary information, as well…
Why John Schindler’s “False Flags: The Kremlin’s Hidden Cyber Hand” is wrong
Guest post by Jonathan Nichols Originally a long tweet, here My response to @20committee cc:@counterJihader Why John Schindler’s “False Flags: The Kremlin’s Hidden Cyber Hand” is wrong. By Jonathan Nichols First, I should establish my credentials to speak on this matter. I joined the army in 2006 as a PSYOP soldier (we deal in Propaganda…
CZ: T-Mobile Employee Arrested for Trying to Sell Customer Data
Cellular News reports: T Mobile’s Czech subsidiary came close to suffering a massive data breach following actions by an employee of the company. Local media reported that an employee attempted to sell the details of 1.5 million customers to fraudsters, but that the attempt was detected before the customer account details were handed over. “Unfortunately,…