Mark Schone, Richard Esposito, Matthew Cole and Glenn Greenwald report: A secret British spy unit created to mount cyber attacks on Britain’s enemies has waged war on the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec, according to documents taken from the National Security Agency by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News. The blunt instrument the spy…
Category: Insider
MN: Former DNR employee enters plea in driver’s license snooping case
Nicole Norfleet reports: Former state employee John Hunt entered an Alford plea Tuesday to charges of breaching thousands of driver’s license files while he worked for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). During a plea settlement hearing in Ramsey County District Court, Hunt admitted that there was sufficient evidence for him to be found guilty…
South Korean card firms suspended over data breach
I remember the cheers at school football and basketball games, “We don’t mess around – HEY! We don’t mess around – HEY!” I thought of that while reading a news story this morning with a follow-up to a breach affecting 15-20 million South Korean credit card holders by a contractor’s employee: South Korean authorities have…
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Campers’ information stolen by camp employee
Nathan Brown reports that a Town of Rosendale man (in upstate New York) has been charged with selling the personal information of campers and their parents at Camp Rov Tov, Rov Tov is a boys’ camp affiliated with a Satmar Jewish school in Brooklyn; they have camps in Dairyland, Kerhonkson, Napanoch and Ellenville in Ulster…
TD Bank reports another insider breach
TD Bank has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of an insider breach that does not appear to be the insider breach that made the media last month. According to the bank’s January 24 notification, between July and November of 2013, an employee may have passed along some customers’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers,…
Aflac discloses insider breach involving customers’ Social Security numbers (updated)
The Continental American Insurance Company (Aflac) is notifying some customers that a former temporary employee improperly accessed customer data, including names and Social Security numbers. Although the firm has no indication of any misuse of the data, affected customers are being offered a year of free credit-monitoring services through ProtectMyID. You can read the January…