Robert Patrick reports: A former employee of an IRS office in St. Louis pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday and admitted filing more than 356 false tax returns, prosecutors said. Demetria Michele Brown, 38, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Jefferson City to two counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity…
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New York State Office of Mental Health Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research notified over 500 of lost laptop
The New York State Office of Mental Health Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research notified 563 research participants (?) of a lost laptop. The notification to HHS was made on April 10, but I can find no notice on the state’s web site or on the institute’s web site to explain what happened or…
Japan’s pension system hacked, 1.25 million cases of personal data leaked
William Mallard of Reuters reports another breach due to successful phishing of employees: Japan’s pension system has been hacked and more than a million cases of personal data leaked, authorities said on Monday, in an embarrassment that revived memories of a scandal that helped topple Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in his first term in office. Japan…
FL: Former Employee of the U.S. Postal Service and Co-Defendant Sentenced for Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Scheme
Two individuals, including a former employee of the U.S. Postal Service, have been sentenced for their participation in an identity theft tax refund fraud scheme. Shawn Hawes, 34, of Miami, was sentenced to 62 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Kelly Urseles Roberts, 39, of Miami, was sentenced on May 19, 2015 to…
Analysis of Yemen Cyber Army data dump
Earlier today, I noted that the Yemen Cyber Army (YCA) had dumped another 1,000,000 records they obtained by hacking the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This latest dump is visa data. Here’s a bit of a summary of the newest data: The compressed file is 73.4 MB; uncompressed, it’s one text file of 362 MB….
Data stolen during hack attack on German parliament, Berlin says
Reuters reports: A spokeswoman for Germany’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, confirmed that hackers had managed to steal data during the cyber attack two weeks ago. She described the detection of several data leaks. Details are unclear as to which specific offices the so-called “scattered data outflows” originated from, or what information they contained….