Peter C. Mastrosimone reports: A computer disc containing detailed personal information about 969 New Yorkers was lost by a Social Security Administration employee traveling to Queens from the Bronx back in late October. Three months later, on Jan. 22, the agency sent out letters to those people, explaining the situation and assuring them that officials…
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MN: Identities of 27,000 Ceridian users at risk
The Associated Press reports: A hacker attack on a Bloomington payroll processing company has put 27,000 people at financial risk. Ceridian, in a letter to affected customers, says the hacker attacked its Internet payroll system Dec. 22 and Dec. 23, potentially revealing Social Security numbers, birth dates and bank accounts of employees working at 1,900…
NY: Hacker stole $378,000 from town account, sent it to Ukraine
Michael Valkys reports: A computer hacker broke into a Town of Poughkeepsie bank account and stole $378,000 by transferring the money to banks in Ukraine, Supervisor Patricia Myers said Wednesday. Ending two weeks of silence about the incident, Myers read a statement before the Town Board’s meeting at Town Hall. She said four illegal transfers…
(Update) Texas man convicted for his role in fraud, ID theft scheme
To update a case reported here previously: The Associated Press reports that Dennis Savarese has been convicted of identity fraud for his role in a scheme to steal credit cards from health club locker rooms and convert them into $400,000 worth of cash at gambling facilities. Savarese was convicted in U.S. District Court in Boston…
Hackers Try to Steal $150,000 from United Way
Brian Krebs writes: Hackers broke into computer systems at a Massachusetts chapter of the United Way last month and attempted to make off with more than $150,000 from one of the nation’s largest charities. Patricia Latimore, chief financial officer at the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimac Valley, said unknown attackers tried to initiate…
Highmark notifies members of new ‘data spill’
Highmark was notifying some 3,700 members on Wednesday that documents containing their names, policy identification and social security numbers were missing, the second such data spill for the region’s dominant health insurer in four months. In January, the company mailed a premium billing statement to Boscov’s Department Store, a client in Reading, according to Highmark….