Guillermo Contreras reports: The personal information of 17,000 people who stayed at San Antonio hotels has been compromised after someone stole stacks of credit card receipts and redistributed them. The still mushrooming identity-theft case is thought to be San Antonio’s largest. “Up to this point, we have recovered 1,500 (receipts), but we’re estimating 17,000 were…
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IN: HoneyBaked Ham customer data stolen
Erika D. Smith reports: Patrons of the HoneyBaked Ham store at 65th Street and Keystone Avenue might be at risk for identity theft if they shopped there in late December. The company said Friday that a computer server stocked with credit-card information was stolen from the 2431 E. 65th St. store on Dec. 24. The…
SRA International network infected; company notifies all employees and customers that personal info may have been compromised
SRA International notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on January 20 that it had recently detected a virus on its network that may have allowed compromise of data. As of the date of the report, SRA’s security experts were reportedly still in the process of trying to eradicate the virus. Because the security experts could…
MassMutual sent clients’ personal info to another client
Earlier this week, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company notified (pdf) the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that on January 6, it had inadvertently sent a report containing personal information to another client. The recipient immediately notified MassMutual of its error and reportedly shredded the document without further dissemination. The total number of individuals affected by the…
Stolen Educational Testing Service laptop contained readers’ personal info
A laptop stolen from an employee’s desk in mid-December contained names and social security numbers of people employed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) as readers, according to a report filed (pdf) with the Maryland Attorney General’s Office this week. The laptop, which had been locked into its docking station, does not appear to have…
Guilty Plea: Blind Hacker Admits Harassment, Eavesdropping, Fraud
Kevin Poulsen reports on 18 year-old Matthew Weigman, a blind telephone hacker: […] In his plea deal with prosecutors, Weigman, who was born blind, admitted to a long criminal resume (.pdf). Among other things, he confessed to conspiring with other telephone hooligans who made hundreds of false calls to police that sent armed SWAT teams…