Brian Krebs reports: Audio visual cabling giant monoprice.com shut down its Web site – possibly for the next couple of weeks – while it investigates the possible compromise of its customer credit and debit card information. Vincent Lim, monoprice.com’s operations manager, said the company took the site offline around midnight on Friday, Mar. 5, after…
Category: U.S.
Stolen US Bank laptop contained customer data
Sun News Staff reports: On March 1, a financial advisor at US Bank, 5154 Wilson Mills, reported a laptop missing from his desk. The bank assistant manager noticed the laptop missing, but did not report it because she knew the financial advisor sometimes took the laptop home. The advisor told police the laptop contained sensitive…
Former Houston bank teller pleads guilty to selling customer data
A Houston area bank teller has pleaded guilty to bank fraud arising from a scheme to steal thousands of dollars from his former employer’s customer accounts, U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno announced Tuesday. Christopher Martin, 25, of Houston, appeared before United States District Judge Nancy Atlas and pleaded guilty to bank fraud admitting that while…
Class Action Suit Over Aetna’s Security Breach Is Dismissed
Shannon P. Duffy reports: Finding there was no more than speculative injury, a federal judge has dismissed a class action suit against Aetna Inc. filed in the wake of news that the insurer’s computer database may have been hacked and that personal data of up to 450,000 job applicants were potentially at risk. In Allison…
Thrivent Financial Suffers Breach Of Security
A Great Lakes-based insurer says it has suffered a security breach that may have compromised sensitive client data. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Minneapolis, says it experienced a break-in at one of its offices in Pennsylvania. A laptop computer was among the items stolen. The laptop had safeguards to protect sensitive information, including strong password protection…
Wickenburg Unified School District struggles to secure sensitive student data
Pat Kossan reports that data security in the Wickenburg Unified School District was found seriously lacking in a state audit: Wickenburg Unified School District has not secured its computer system containing sensitive student data, including student addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers, state auditors found. Staffers from the Arizona Office of the Auditor General…