Michelle Knoll reports: Prosecutors have charged eleven people in an elaborate, counterfeit credit card scheme. Eight of them are in custody. Federal investigators are still looking for the other three defendants. According to the criminal complaint, between July 2008 and April 2009 the group is accused of purchasing the personal information of Capitol One Bank…
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UK: Secret files on care kids found in Wolverhampton garden shed
Paul Cole reports: Sensitive information on vulnerable children in social services’ care was found in a Midland garden shed by a builder, it emerged last night. The confidential information is believed to have included private and personal case files of hundreds of children who were held in care in the Black Country. Sensitive files had…
UK: Probe after civil servant details given out with FOI
The Scottish government is under investigation by the UK information tsar after it mistakenly provided confidential details about civil servants to the Sunday Herald. Internal documents with individual computer ID and phone numbers were accidentally included in papers about energy policy released last week after a freedom of information request. The government has been accused…
Digital Direct reports breach
Chris Cooper of Bloomberg.com reports that Digital Direct, Inc., a unit of Mistubishi Corp., had a breach of their e-commerce web site that resulted in the compromise of 52,000 customers’ credit card numbers. According to Cooper, the breach, which reportedly originated overseas (from them), was first brought to Digital Direct’s attention by credit card companies…
Rap over loss of sensitive data
Express and Star in the UK reports: A memory stick with details of vulnerable children and their families was lost by a Sandwell Council worker on the way home, it emerged today. The incident sparked an investigation by the Information Commissioner and the council has found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act….
AU: Accused bank computer hacker faces court
Larine Statham reports: Police will spend the next four months building a case against an alleged computer hacker who planned to attack 74,000 computers worldwide from Adelaide. The accused, Anthony Scott Harrison, 20, faced the Adelaide Magistrates Court for the first time on Friday. […] Police allege Harrison compromised more than 3,000 computers throughout the…