Lindsey Rogers reports: A Tallassee business is now front and center in an investigation into hundreds of stolen identities. The hack affected up to 700 people in and around the small town. Victims continue to deal with the fallout from the massive credit card hack. Anne Christian and Elizabeth Britt are Tallassee residents who had…
Category: Business Sector
And yet another Experian data breach
This time, the client whose credentials were misused to access Experian’s database was Everglades Federal Credit Union. By my count, that’s now more than 60 breaches of this kind since 2006. Why has no federal agency done anything about this?
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act No Help to Employer Suing Employee Who Took Proprietary Business Info
Michelle Hackim writes: An employer had no cause of action under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) against an employee who accessed its computer systems to misappropriate confidential and proprietary business information to start a competing business, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has held. Cranel Inc. v. Pro Image Consultants…
Alabama Woman Sentenced to Prison for Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
A Dothan, Alabama, woman was sentenced to serve 34 months in prison in connection with her role in committing stolen identity tax refund fraud. On July 16, a jury found Nina Macena, 32, guilty of conspiring to defraud the government through the filing of false tax returns, three counts of wire fraud and three counts…
FCC jumps into data security; plans $10 million fine for carriers that breached consumer privacy
Back in 2013, I blogged about a breach involving TerraCom and YourTel. Their breach response was so poor that I devoted two posts to criticizing them. But as bad as the breach and their response were, things got even worse when Scripps News kept investigating and uncovered more problems. It was no surprise, therefore, to learn…
BreyerHorse.com site compromised for 18 months
Reeves International is notifying consumers who made purchases on BreyerHorses.com that their personal information may have been compromised in a breach that went undetected for 18 months. In a letter to those affected, Arthur Minnocci, CFO, writes: On September 9, 2014, we learned that unauthorized individuals installed malicious software on the computer server hosting the Breyer Horses…