Colleen Long reports: Bank tellers, restaurant workers and other service employees in New York lifted credit card data from residents and foreign tourists as part of an identity theft ring that stretched to China, Europe and the Middle East and victimized thousands, authorities said Friday. In total, 111 people were arrested and more than 85…
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Citigroup Sued by Cardholders Over May Security Breach
Patricia Hurtado reports: Citigroup Inc. (C), the third-largest U.S. bank, was sued by cardholders over a May computer security breach that affected more than 360,000 accounts. Kristina and Steven Orman of Northport, New York, sued Citigroup in federal court in Manhattan today, seeking to represent victims of the hacking in a class-action, or group, lawsuit….
UGA personnel data posted on web site (Updated)
Laura Diamond reports: University of Georgia officials are investigating how personal data on nearly 19,000 employees was publicly available on a university web site since at least 2008. […] The database was created for internal purposes and included the Social Security number, date of birth, employee name and other sensitive information for everyone who was…
Some days, I pull my hair out, Thursday edition
Everywhere I look, there are data breaches that I would want to include in DataLossDB.org’s database. But as I backfill the database to include incidents reported on my blogs that were never in the database, my research stumbles over tons of other breaches that should also be included. Rather than getting closer and closer to…
Patient Data Landed Online After a Series of Missteps
The Stanford Hospital breach is a useful reminder of why you shouldn’t use real data sets for testing. Kevin Sack of the New York Times reports: Private medical data for nearly 20,000 emergency room patients at California’s prestigious Stanford Hospital were exposed to public view for nearly a year because a billing contractor’s marketing agent…
MI: Completed absentee ballots with Social Security numbers found in storage closet
Jonathan Lowe reports: …. “It has the social security numbers on it, the birth date and the person’s name and address,” Murphy explains. He says he discovered boxes of absentee ballots inside the recreation hall at the Bangor Township hall. “Bangor Township had an energy expo on Sept. 24.” Murphy says. “I was looking for a…