Caitlin Morris reports: Twenty-year-old Saihing Chan incurred four felony charges Wednesday in Saratoga County for his alleged role in stealing identities from nearly 80 patrons who ate at a now-closed Glenmont restaurant. At the time of his arrest, he was an inmate at Albany County Jail on an additional 19 identity theft-related felonies he is…
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TX: Man allegedly tied to hacker group Anonymous accused of targeting ‘Monitor,’ La Joya ISD, Hidalgo County
Ildefonso Ortiz reports: A Donna man with ties to the international computer hacking group Anonymous is accused of trying to break into various Web servers, including those of Hidalgo County, La Joya ISD and The Monitor. Thursday morning, a somber-looking Fidel Salinas went before Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby, who informed him of the new accusations presented…
Hey “Chicken Littles,” Wyndham Doesn’t Mean the Sky is Falling
Jeff Kosseff writes: Based on the extensive news coverage of this week’s court ruling against Wyndham Hotels and Resorts in its battle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), one would think that the sky is falling on efforts to resist FTC enforcement actions relating to data security. Adweek wrote that the case is “a test for…
Pointing fingers, Thursday edition – U.S. Info Search tells its side
On April 8, this blog published a post concerning the Court Ventures breach that questioned whether Experian was getting a bad rap for a breach that started with Court Ventures and its reciprocal data sharing agreement with U.S. Info Search. Unbeknownst to DataBreaches.net at the time, U.S. Info Search had issued a press release the…
Deltek suffers cyber attack putting 80,000 employees of vendors at risk
Jason Miller reports: About 80,000 employees of federal contractors are at risk of identity theft after a hacker broke into business research firm Deltek’s GovWin IQ system. In an email to vendors, which Federal News Radio obtained and was confirmed by Deltek, Mike Corkery, the company’s president and CEO, said it discovered on March 13…
Update to VALIC databreach
Gene Valicenti has an update on the VALIC databreach reported previously on this blog. The breach generated a number of questions, including why it took so long for the life insurance and retirement plan firm to figure out what happened and why it took so long for them to determine who needed to be notified…