As an update to a previously reported breach: A hacker who wormed into a UNC Chapel Hill computer server may not have gotten access to as much information as officials originally feared. UNC School of Medicine officials said last week that a security breach had left data related to as many as 236,000 women enrolled…
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700,000 Express Scripts members notified of extortion demands (update 2)
As previously reported here Express Scripts recently updated their breach report on the incident from 2008 involving an extortion demand. Now Dina Wisenberg Brin of Dow Jones Newswires provides some additional details, including the statistic that Express Scripts has now sent out approximately 700,000 individual notification letters, total. The company has not revealed how many…
Florida man sentenced for ID theft
Richard L. Marzullo, 56, Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment yesterday by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young following his guilty plea to aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, interstate transport of stolen property and conspiracy, announced Timothy M. Morrison, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. Marzullo admitted that he purchased…
Second city man arrested in ID fraud
In an update to a story previously reported here, Larry Alexander reports: A second Lancaster County man has been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice in an identity-theft scheme that targeted DUI offenders in Lancaster and York counties. John B. Spencer III, 30, of Lancaster, is the second man charged with conspiracy to commit…
File Cabinet Purchase Leads To Identity Theft Concerns
Some former and current Panola School District, Oklahoma employees are learning that some of their employment records from 1998 and 1999, including W-2’s, were in file cabinets sold to the public. Now the people who bought the cabinets are declining to turn the records over to the school district without a court order and are…
FBI: Virus suspected in school thefts
Brett Rowland and Kate Schott report: As much as $350,000 reported stolen from Crystal Lake District 47 bank accounts earlier this summer could be linked to cyberthefts at other suburban schools. The FBI’s Chicago office is investigating the cases, at least one of which involves a hard-to-detect computer virus. No arrests have been made or…