Teresa Woodard reports: Thousands of documents containing personal, confidential information were discovered in a North St. Louis dumpster. It is the kind of data that could lead to hundreds, if not thousands of cases of identity theft. But there’s no way to know how it got there, or who put it there. […] “I got…
Category: Business Sector
(update) NZ asks FBI to help nail hackers
Jared Savage reports: The FBI has been asked to help police investigate an international cyber-crime syndicate that hacked into a council-owned carpark to steal credit card details from thousands of customers. The theft of credit card details from payment machines at the Downtown carpark in central Auckland was discovered in November. It had gone undetected…
Famous Dave’s employee data stolen (update 2)
Here we go again…. another seemingly avoidable data theft. A Minnetonka-based employee of Famous Dave’s left some baggage in the car of a companion, including a work-related laptop computer containing a report with unencrypted employee information. As Famous Dave’s reported to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office by letter on April 16, the laptop was…
RI: Computer glitch causes big headaches
Susan Hogan reports: An Attleboro businessman thought he hit the jackpot, his company’s 401k plan doubled in value in just months. Not only had his 401k doubled in size, so did the amount of employees he supposedly had working for him. The company he hired to handle his payroll and 401k plan, had somehow sent…
Users’ passwords exposed by Splunk
Oops — I meant to post this a few days ago, but just discovered it still sitting in the drafts folder… Gavin Clarke reports: Splunk, a kind of Google for business technology that boasts it can help re-enforce your security, has exposed the accounts of major customers to hackers following a web site slip up….
Former Owner and General Manager of Massucci Geneva Ford Charged with Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft
Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced yesterday that a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, returned an indictment against David Massucci, age 53. Massucci was charged with four counts of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. Massucci is a former owner and general manager of…