Although Sally Beauty acknowledges that 25,000 payment cards may have been compromised in a recently disclosed breach, Brian Krebs challenges their statement by analyzing the zip codes of card data up for sale on an underground market, rescator.so. You can read his analysis here, but the short version is that Brian speculates that all Sally Beauty…
Category: ID Theft
More TD Bank insider breaches
On March 1, I blogged about numerous insider breaches TD Bank has reported in the past few years. I updated that report on March 9 with even more breaches that I uncovered via public records that were subsequently made available. Today, I received a response to a public records request to the North Carolina Attorney…
Data breach involving card payment data at California Department of Motor Vehicles – Krebs (update 3)
Brian Krebs reports that what’s already been a bad month for California residents in terms of data breaches just got worse: The California Department of Motor Vehicles appears to have suffered a wide-ranging credit card data breach involving online payments for DMV-related services, according to banks in California and elsewhere that received alerts this week about compromised cards…
Current and former Weather Shield employees continue to battle identity theft
Just a quick update to the Weather Shield case – where employees have been victims of tax refund fraud for the past three years, although Weather Shield says there is no evidence that they had a breach: so far this year, there have been 24 cases of tax refund fraud. And for the life of me,…
GA: Dozens of Watershed Management Employees’ Identity Stolen for Tax Refund Fraud
Ross McLaughlin reports: 11Alive’s Center for Investigative Action has uncovered a very suspicious case of identity theft involving several employees in Atlanta’s Watershed Management. It raises a lot of cases about a possible data breach. There’s no evidence yet to suggest the breach occurred within the city, but it’s suspect, considering that so many employees…
University of Northern Iowa doubts stolen laptop linked to ID theft
MacKenzie Elmer reports: A state audit found unencrypted laptops and portable devices that may store sensitive information at the University of Northern Iowa could pose a risk to the university, but UNI officials said there’s no evidence that’s the source of the mass identity theft that cropped up after employees filed their taxes this year….