In a breach case that was first revealed in August 2008, a former Countrywide employee has been sentenced: A former employee of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. was sentenced Tuesday to eight months in prison and ordered to repay $1.2 million after pleading guilty to downloading millions of borrower files on thumb drives and selling…
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Smiley Face Emoticon Triggers FIU Data Scare
Steve Litz reports: Thousands of students at Florida International University are hoping their personal information is not used against them after being informed of a possible security breach of the university’s computer system. An undergraduate education database containing 19,500 current and former students’ names, social security numbers, birth dates, and grade point averages was discovered…
Hana SK Card joins the ranks of South Korean firms suffering data leaks
Kang Seung-woo reports: A succession of data leaks are besieging local credit card issuers as the latest version of online security breach has taken place at Hana SK Card. The continuous irregularities are keeping customers on their toes amid mounting worries about faulty online security. According to the card issuer, its telemarketing employee leaked not…
Data breaches affect 2m in Mass.
Hiawatha Bray reports: Personal information from nearly one out of three Massachusetts residents, from names and addresses to medical histories, has been compromised through data theft or loss since the beginning of 2010, according to statistics released yesterday by the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley. […] The attorney general’s office has received 1,166 data…
Two years later, Texas parent who reported a breach gets prosecutors off his back and his laptop returned
A Texas parent who reported a school district security breach involving sensitive student records spent the next two years facing federal charges and trying to get his laptop back Back in August 2009, DataBreaches.net reported that a parent had his work and personal computers seized by the FBI after he reported a security breach to his…
Breaches have consequences: Watchdog penalizes Hyundai Capital after data leak
A follow-up to the Hyundai Capital breach first disclosed in April. At the time, Hyundai reported that approximately 420,000 of its 1.8 million customers had their names, resident registration numbers, mobile phone numbers and email addresses compromised by hackers. Now Yonhap News reports: South Korea’s financial watchdog on Thursday decided to issue an institutional warning…