Reporters Gal Tziperman Lotan and Todd Wallack of The Boston Globe obtained breach reports submitted to Massachusetts. Three of the ones they mention have not been previously reported in the media or on this site, so here’s a brief roundup of incidents to add to databases: John Hancock Financial Services: reported that a partner could…
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TJX Hacking Conspirator Gets 4 Years
Kim Zetter reports: Humza Zaman, a co-conspirator in the hack of TJX and other companies, was sentenced Thursday in Boston to 46 months in prison and fined $75,000 for his role in the conspiracy. The sentence matches what prosecutors were seeking. Zaman, a 33-year-old former programmer at Barclays Bank, was charged with laundering between $600,000…
Former waitress at P.F. Chang’s pleads guilty to skimming customer data
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Chibuzo Okafor, 24, of Rosedale, New York, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud. According to court documents and…
Monoprice.com Shuttered After Fraud Complaints
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…
Three charged in lucrative skimmer scheme
Andrew Blankstein reports: Prosecutors charged a trio of suspected identity thieves each with nearly two dozen criminal charges Monday for allegedly taking $2 million by using credit card skimming technology at gas pumps. Albert Jose Gonzalez, 39, of Lancaster, Josue Gustavo Albizuras, 42, of Los Angeles, and Cesar Vasquez Echeverria, 28, of Santa Clarita were arrested Feb. 25 after a…
Arrow Electronics notifies 4,044 employees of stolen laptop
The theft of a laptop from the office of Arrow Electronics in Melville, New York has resulted in the company notifying 4,044 current and former employees that their personal information was on the laptop. According to a notification sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and to those affected last week, the laptop was…