Jeffery H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. Folmar, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today the arrest of defendant Luis Robert Altamarino. According to the Indictment filed on August 4, 2009, Altamarino was a former employee of United Way of Miami-Dade (“UWMD”)….
Category: Miscellaneous
Scammers may have thousands of bank account numbers
Phony debt collectors are calling consumers, equipped with their Social Security and bank account numbers, claiming they have defaulted on a payday loan, according to the Better Business Bureau. The BBB said the callers tell people they are with the “Financial Accountability Association” or the “Federal Legislation of Unsecured Loans.” Because the scammers have so…
PerlMonks suffers unholy hack
Web developer site PerlMonks is obliging users to change up their passwords, following a successful hacking attack. The community website, which provides a forum for users interested in Perl programming and related subjects, such as web applications and system administration, posted a notice (extract below) admitting the hacker had breached its systems in May. The…
Methinks he might protest too much
As someone who routinely makes snarky pronouncements about breaches, I was actually impressed by how Toronto Hydro handled their recent data breach. Yet some people were strongly critical. The facts of the breach, as I currently understand them are that: 179,000 Toronto Hydro customer account numbers were illegally accessed in the company’s e-billing system. Toronto…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Swedish police are increasingly certain that two Romanian nationals arrested in Hungary are the masterminds behind the widespread credit card scam which recently hit residents in Malmö in southern Sweden. Hundreds of residents in Malmö have complained of credit card fraud; half of them after using an unnamed Shell gas station….
More breaches we didn’t read about
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office web site update reveals a number of breaches in the past few months that were never reported in the media. In addition to other news items reported earlier today on this site, here are some more newly revealed breaches: Pension Fund of the U.S.W.U. Local No. 74 reported that in…