Finders, keepers? Can you just auction off lost USB drives left on trains without regard to whether they contain sensitive information? Maureen Shelley reports: A bunch of USB memory sticks, which hold private photos and data, left by passengers on Sydney trains were sold by Railcorp at a lost property auction. Computer security company Sophos,…
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College of the Holy Cross employees fall for phishing attempt, 493 notified of compromised personal information
No matter how many times entities warn employees about phishing attempts, it seems that some inevitably fall for them anyway. College of the Holy Cross recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that 7 of their employees had fallen for phishing attempts that originated in Nigeria and Ghana. As a result of the phishing,…
Service Members’ Identities Stolen Via File-Sharing Used for Fraud
Lita Beck and Ken Kalthoff report: A California man who stole thousands of identities, including those of U.S. service members, was sentenced Thursday in Dallas to more than six years in federal prison. Rene Quimby, 42, pleaded guilty in May to one count of fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft in the case,…
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…
Thirty-one Gifts, two breaches, and a bunch of notification letters
It must be headache-inducing enough to investigate one security breach. To discover a second breach while investigating the first, well, pass the Prozac. On August 8 , lawyers for Ohio-headquartered Thirty-One Gifts, LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that while investigating how administrative credentials had been misappropriated and used to transfer some consultants’…
Judge: Comerica must pay company hit in phishing attack
David Ashenfelter reports on a ruling in a case with potentially huge implications, EMI v. Comerica (past coverage): Comerica bank must reimburse a Sterling Heights sheet metal company $561,000 it lost in an Internet phishing attack, a federal judge has ruled in what may be the first such case nationally to be tried to a…