Here are another 11 breach notifications submitted to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. These were filed in May and June, and in all but one case, we didn’t know about them through the media or other sources. A breach involving USAA Federal Savings Bank had previously been noted on this site, but there’s more to…
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Two charged with credit union theft that allegedly used Navy clinic data
Another case allegedly involving theft of patient data for fraud. John Wharton reports from Maryland: St. Mary’s grand jurors have charged two county residents with stealing from the Navy Federal Credit Union, in a scheme that law officers allege misappropriated the personal information of Navy health clinic patients. Donna Mason, a 41-year-old Lexington Park woman,…
Update: State Farm employee was selling client data
I’ve previously noted that some state logs (like NYS’s) indicated that State Farm had reported some insider wrongdoing. Their notification to Maryland, dated June 24, provides additional details. According to their letter, an employee of a Florida State Farm agent was discovered to be selling lists of customer information to a third party. State Farm…
Insider wrongdoing a low point for High Point University
In late June, High Point University in North Carolina discovered that an employee who had access to personal information of students had misused the credit card information of nine individuals for fraudulent purposes. The university notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on July 15 that they were notifying 634 Maryland residents of the breach. The employee…
Employee of Akamai Technologies charged with wire fraud in spying sting
Another reminder about insiders, even though in this case, no confidential data was actually compromised because a would-be spy delivered the information to an undercover federal agent. From the press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts, a case first reported by Elizabeth Heichler on Computerworld: An employee of a high technology company headquartered…
Former Employee of Fannie Mae Contractor Convicted of Attempting to Destroy Fannie Mae Computer Data
Ah, the risks of disgruntled terminated employees. A federal jury convicted computer programmer Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, age 36, of Montgomery County, Maryland, yesterday of computer intrusion arising from the transmission of malicious script to Fannie Mae’s computer servers. The verdict was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and…