A hacker has broken into the Nebraska Worker’s Compensation database, prompting an FBI investigation and an effort to contact those who may be affected. Several thousand people could be affected by the breach, which was discovered last week when the state’s chief information officer noticed an unusual amount of Internet traffic traversing the Worker’s Compensation…
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Follow-up: Settlement OK’d in DA Davidson hacker lawsuit, extortionists indicted
In January 2008, Davidson Companies, a Great Falls-based investment company, revealed that a hacker had broken into a database in 2007 and obtained the names and Social Security numbers of some 226,000 Davidson clients. A lawsuit filed against the company in April was re-filed in May of 2008. Now the lawsuit has settled and there…
Heartland Update: Some St. Mary’s debit cards compromised
Cards that were “low-risk” from Heartland breach recently used for fraud. Denis Paiste reports: St. Mary’s Bank is reissuing about 3,500 debit cards it had been monitoring since a security breach at a national processor in January. “We were told they were low-risk cards, but very recently we’ve been seeing some fraudulent activity,” St. Mary’s…
WA: Fraud ‘hits’ follow local data breach (updated)
As an update on a story posted here yesterday, Howard Buck reports that over 3,000 employees were affected by the breach of Vancouver Public Schools, and that: Already, several Vancouver district employees have reported “hits” of suspicious personal banking account activity after their financial institutions were alerted to possible fraud, by the district or by…
Four indicted for RBS WorldPay hack
Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, Russia; Oleg Covelin, 28, of Chisinau, Moldova; and a person known only as “Hacker 3;” have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta, Ga., on charges of hacking into a computer network operated by the Atlanta-based credit card processing company RBS…
Heartland revises results for third quarter due to breach costs
Breach costs force a revision in estimates. From their press release: …. subsequent to the release of its earnings for the third quarter on November 3, 2009, Heartland engaged in settlement discussions that resulted in an increase in settlement offers made to certain claimants in an attempt to resolve certain of the claims asserted against…