Damall Keith reports: It was thrown away like trash, folders full of personal information. What do you think? Is your social security number, salary and employment information trash? One company now has some explaining to do after private files were found in a dumpster. ”Copies of drivers license, copies of social security cards, banking information,”…
Category: Breach Incidents
CT: Westport Cellphone Store Worker Arrested in ID Theft
A 23-year-old New York man turned himself into police after learning there was a warrant for his arrest for allegedly selling personal information gathered while working at a Westport cellphone store, police said. Stefano Pascente of Richmond Hills, N.Y. was arrested Wednesday after an investigation that began in December 2013, police said. Court documents showed…
University of California, Washington Center notifies alumni of vendor breach
The University of California, Washington Center (UCDC) recently notified alumni of a breach involving their course pre-enrollment system. As a result of the June 7 attack on UCDC’s cloud-based provider, GoSignMeUp.com, alumni’s usernames, postal and email addresses, passwords, gender, date of birth, and courses taken were accessed. The breach was discovered on June 9. The…
High school computer whiz, 16, criminally charged with hacking grades: A+ for effort?
John Luciew reports: One thing is clear, the 16-year-old sophomore at the center of an alleged grade and attendance-record hacking case in Orange, N.J., apparently has some mad computer skills and plenty of smarts for executing elaborate plans. If only the student would apply those academic assets to his or her school work, then perhaps…
AT&T Mobility reports breach involving service provider employees
So apparently it’s not enough that I read and think about gadzillions of breach notification letters. I’m supposed to actually report on them, too, huh? It seems I was so underwhelmed by an AT&T Mobility breach that I never reported on it here, even though mainstream media found it really newsworthy, with some even going so…
College of the Desert notifies employees of e-mail breach
College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California recently notified employees that an employee sent an e-mail with an attached spreadsheet with employee information to 78 college employees. The spreadsheet contained employees’ name, Social Security number, date of birth, gender, zip code, job title, employee identification number, health insurance benefit plan selection, health insurance subscriber identification…