DataBreaches.Net

Menu
  • About
  • Breach Notification Laws
  • Privacy Policy
  • Transparency Report
Menu

Category: U.S.

Follow-up: Former law firm employee sentenced to 13 years in prison for role in ID theft/tax refund fraud ring

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Dissent

Jay Weaver provides an update with additional details on a breach involving Rodney St. Fleur, an employee of a Miami law firm who misused his access to LexisNexis database searches to steal over 20,000 individuals’ information for a tax refund fraud scheme. Weaver reports that in court, St. Fleur admitted that he had stolen the…

Read more

Magistrate Recommends Dismissal with Prejudice of Claims Against Global Payments

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Dissent

Craig Hoffman writes: Global Payments, which processes credit card transactions, announced on March 30, 2012 that an unauthorized person gained access to a portion of its processing system.  Global Payments later disclosed that Track 2 data (card number, expiration date, verification code but not cardholder name or address) of 1.5 million cardholders were taken.  Three…

Read more

Central Hudson Cyber Attack Investigation Progress

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Dissent

Yesterday, Central Hudson Gas & Electric detected an intrusion and immediately alerted customers to the possibility that their auto-pay bank account information may have been accessed. Today they just issued the following update: Potentially Affected Customers to be Offered Free Credit Monitoring Central Hudson is continuing its investigation into a weekend cyber-security attack within its…

Read more

SCDOR breach: Judge dismisses Governor and former DOR director as defendants

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Dissent

Meg Kinnard of Associated Press reports that Circuit Judge G. Thomas Cooper has dismissed Governor Haley and South Carolina’s former revenue director as defendants in a lawsuit over the state’s massive security breach last year in the Department of Revenue. But… and this will be interesting to watch, the judge said he needed more time…

Read more

Insurance company need not defend accountant who lost sensitive client information

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Dissent

Having homeowner’s insurance is a good idea, but don’t count on it to protect you if your clients’ data is stolen from your property. Stephen E Wieker and Liisa M. Thomas and Winston & Strawn LLP write: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh recently ruled that Nationwide Insurance Co. has no duty to defend or…

Read more

Leader of Florida ID theft ring convicted

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Dissent

Back in June 2012, the Department of Justice announced that Alci Bonannee had been arrested and charged with ID theft in a massive tax refund fraud scheme. At the time, they found evidence that over 1,000 fraudulent returns had been filed by Bonannee and her co-conspirators between January 2011 and June 6, 2012. This week, Bonannee was…

Read more
  • Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 1,419
  • 1,420
  • 1,421
  • 1,422
  • 1,423
  • 1,424
  • 1,425
  • …
  • 1,914
  • Next

Now more than ever

"Stand with Ukraine:" above raised hands. The illustration is in blue and yellow, the colors of Ukraine's flag.

Search

Browse by Categories

Recent Posts

  • Central Maine Healthcare tackles suspected cybersecurity issue; hospitals remain open
  • Cartier Data Breach: Luxury Retailer Warns Customers that Personal Data Was Exposed
  • Beyond the Pond Phish: Unraveling Lazarus Group’s Evolving Tactics
  • Akira doesn’t keep its promises to victims — SuspectFile
  • Fraudsters, murderers, students: who the GRU assembled a team of hacker provocateurs from and why it failed
  • Order of Psychologists of Lombardy fined 30,000 € for inadequate data security protection and detection following ransomware attack
  • Lower Merion School District says a data breach was caused by a computer glitch (1)
  • After $1 Million Ransom Demand, Virgin Islands Lottery Restores Operations Without Paying Hackers
  • Junior Defence Contractor Arrested For Leaking Indian Naval Secrets To Suspected Pakistani Spies
  • Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump

No, You Can’t Buy a Post or an Interview

This site does not accept sponsored posts or link-back arrangements. Inquiries about either are ignored.

And despite what some trolls may try to claim: DataBreaches has never accepted even one dime to interview or report on anyone. Nor will DataBreaches ever pay anyone for data or to interview them.

Want to Get Our RSS Feed?

Grab it here:

https://databreaches.net/feed/

RSS Recent Posts on PogoWasRight.org

  • Stewart Baker vs. Orin Kerr on “The Digital Fourth Amendment”
  • Fears Grow Over ICE’s Reach Into Schools
  • Resource: HoganLovells Asia-Pacific Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity Guide 2025
  • She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.
  • Why AI May Be Listening In on Your Next Doctor’s Appointment
  • Watch out for activist judges trying to deprive us of our rights to safe reproductive healthcare
  • Nebraska Bans Minor Social Media Accounts Without Parental Consent

Have a News Tip?

Email: Tips[at]DataBreaches.net

Signal: +1 516-776-7756

Contact Me

Email: info[at]databreaches.net

Mastodon: Infosec.Exchange/@PogoWasRight

Signal: +1 516-776-7756

DMCA Concern: dmca[at]databreaches.net
© 2009 – 2025 DataBreaches.net and DataBreaches LLC. All rights reserved.