Wayne K. Roustan reports: A 23-year-old U.S. Marine is looking at up to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal fraud charges in an identity theft case that victimized fellow Marines stationed with him in Afghanistan, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer announced Wednesday in Miami. Jobson Cenor, of North Miami, plotted with Dorothy…
Category: Breach Incidents
Sensitive social service files found on TV set that was former Enfield Council building
John Dunne reports: An urgent investigation has been launched after dozens of confidential social services files were found at an abandoned town hall in London. The documents, including highly sensitive reports on parents turned down for adoption and the case notes on the Victoria Climbié case, were left on shelves and tables on public view…
UK: Files containing personal information found in skip in Llandudno
Dave Powell reports: Files containing job applicants’ personal details were found dumped in a skip. A shocked member of the public discovered the documents and passed them to the Daily Post. We have chosen not to identify the two women named in the dossiers but the way that the files appear to have been carelessly…
Kent County Council sends sensitive adoption details to wrong party
Sending sensitive adoption details to the wrong e-mail address is bad. Misdirecting them to an employee of the BBC is sure to get media coverage. BBC reports that’s what happened with the Kent County Council, who are now investigating how a BBC employee was sent such sensitive information.
100+ Education hacked, thousands of accounts leaked by @TeamGhostShell
Early today @TeamGhostShell announced a big leak that was aimed towards education based websites all around the world. the as normal comes in a many different parts which have been mirrored at least 3 times for each leak. This is not the first time we have seen big leaks by this crew with one coming…
PA: Nemacolin Woodlands Resort reports security breach during summer (update3)
WTAE in Pennsylvania reports that guests who stayed at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort between May and July may have had their credit card numbers, expiration dates, and CSC numbers exfiltrated by a POS compromise. Read the statement from Nemacolin Woodlands Resort on WTAE. One intriguing statement in their release was this: A private firm investigating this…