Tonya Alanez reports on yet another insider breach as part of a tax refund fraud ring in Florida. This one involves a Broward County court clerk: Porscha Kyles, 25, of Davie, pleaded guilty Monday to using her work computer to steal drivers’ names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and other personal information while working at the…
Category: U.S.
Update: Adobe Breach Impacted At Least 38 Million Users
Brian Krebs has updated his investigation into the Adobe hack that was originally reported to have affected 2.9 million customers. In a post on KrebsonSecurity.com today, Brian writes that at least 38 million are affected. But just this past weekend, AnonNews.org posted a huge file called “users.tar.gz” that appears to include more than 150 million username and…
Alabama Man Pleads Guilty To His Involvement In An Identity Theft Scheme Using Stolen Prisoner Names
Harvey James pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft for his role in a tax refund fraud scheme using stolen inmate information. The plea was announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama George…
Brit charged with hacking U.S. military networks
Jonathan Stempel reports: A British man has been arrested in England and charged by the United States and Britain with infiltrating U.S. government computer systems, including those run by the military, to steal confidential data and disrupt operations, authorities said. U.S. prosecutors said the alleged hacker, Lauri Love, infiltrated thousands of computer systems including those…
Yusen Logistics + unencrypted laptop + unattended car = #databreach
From a letter sent by Yusen Logistics (Americas) to its current and former employees: On the morning of September 24, 2013, we learned that a password-protected, unencrypted laptop computer issued to a YLA employee was stolen from the employee’s vehicle the night before. The incident was reported to the police and we immediately began a…
Update: $380k spent investigating, cleaning up after Ferris State’s online security breach
Brian McVicar reports the costs of the Ferris State University breach covered on this blog in August. A total of $380,000 was spent investigating and providing services for those affected by a data security breach at Ferris State University that put at risk personal information of 62,000 people, according to a university report. The report, obtained through…