Tim McGlone reports: A former student employee at Virginia Wesleyan College faces federal charges of accessing a school database of more than 380,000 students and alumni, stealing identities and opening credit card accounts. Katecha R. “Tisha” Thomas, 28, is accused of stealing $11,000 from the credit card accounts, and she tried to get as much…
Category: U.S.
Friday reminder on the importance of background checks (updated)
San Mateo Medical Center is offering current and former employees three years of identity theft protection services because someone they hired for their payroll unit failed to disclosed a prior conviction for identity theft and they didn’t discover the conviction until after the employee had access to payroll data. Although an investigation disclosed no evidence…
Chicago Yacht Club hacked
Shia Kapos reports: The Chicago Yacht Club has reported a data breach involving credit and debit cards of its high-profile members. “Regrettably, the Club suffered a computer security incident that may involve your personal information,” wrote Commodore Gerald Bober in a July 31 letter to members. Read more on Chicago Business.
Broward woman who stole AT&T customers’ identities gets prison sentence
Paula McMahon reports: A Lauderdale Lakes woman, who admitted she stole the identities of about 18 AT&T customers, has been sentenced to two years and 10 months in federal prison, prosecutors said Thursday. Chouman Emily Syrilien, 25, of Lauderdale Lakes, who is also an amateur rap artist known as Nootchi Bankzz, pleaded guilty earlier this…
University of California Santa Barbara alerts employees using direct deposit to potential check fraud
The University of California – Santa Barbara has sent out an update to a breach alert it sent out in July after some employees reported possible check fraud involving their personal checking accounts. In a letter posted on the California Attorney General’s website today, Jim Corkill, Director of Business and Financial Services writes: Our investigation recently…
United States Investigations Services (USIS) suffers major computer breach, officials say; DHS contractor
Ellen Nakashima reports: A major U.S. contractor that conducts background checks for the Department of Homeland Security has suffered a computer breach that likely resulted in the theft of employees’ personal information, officials said Wednesday. The company, USIS, said in a statement that the intrusion “has all the markings of a state-sponsored attack.” The breach,…