Tom Murphy of Associated Press reports that Aetna, Inc. learned that a web site maintained by a vendor had been compromised earlier this month. Files on the web site included about 450,000 email addresses for job applicants, but even more ominously, names, addresses, employment histories, and Social Security numbers of about 65,000 current and former…
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Students’ Social Security Nos. Found In Dumpster
KYPost.com reports that a four-page list with more than 140 Warren County Virtual school students’ names, addresses, birth dates, and social security numbers was found in a recycling dumpster. The school is investigating the breach.
Eighteen charged in NY bank fraud, ID theft scheme
Reuters reports that 18 people have been indicted in New York City for operating a bank fraud and identity theft scheme that resulted in the cashing of more than 1,000 counterfeit checks at several large banks. The defendants are accused of obtaining bank customers’ personal data with the help of insiders who they recruited for…
TX: Man sentenced to 25 years for identity-theft scheme
Here’s another case of a stiff sentence for ID theft. Billy Coats was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraudulently using or possessing identifying information. At the time of his arrest, Coats was found in possession of more than 200 personal-identification items as well as computer equipment to make fake IDs…
Rash of debit fraud due to Heartland Payment Systems breach
When Heartland Payment Systems announced a major breach on January 20, some banks and credit unions decided to replace cards proactively. Others decided to just monitor the cards flagged. Now, one week after the deadline for submitting claims to Visa, some banks may be regretting their decision not to replace cards. For example, consider this…
Virus compromises Health Dialog Services employee data
On May 12, Boston-based Health Dialog Services Corporation notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had detected a virus on their network that compromised company data, including data stored in the Internet Explorer browser cache on employee computers. The virus was detected on May 5. The company subsequently determined that the compromised…