A Lynn man pleaded guilty in federal court today to selling and using the names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of Transportation Security Administration employees who worked at Logan Airport. Michael Debring, A/K/A Michael Washington, 49, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to conspiracy, misrepresenting a Social Security number with…
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13 million deviantART e-mail addresses exposed by hackers
Matthew Humphries covers a Silverpop-related deviantART e-mail address hack mentioned previously on this blog: Pre-Christmas 2010 will be remembered as the time when well-known online brands and websites started to fall to hackers. The biggest of them all so far has been Gawker, and we’ve also seen McDonalds have its databases compromised this week. But…
(follow-up) FL Bus Driver Sentenced For Stealing Disabled Patrons’ Identities
As a follow-up to a case originally mentioned on this blog in October, News4Jax.com reports that Watreka Ligon has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for stealing the identities of disabled bus patrons. She has also been ordered to pay restitution. Ligon had been working for MV Transport, a contractor for Central Florida…
NYC: 15,000 Social security numbers stolen from state computers by subcontractor
Thousands of Social Security numbers have been stolen from the computers of a New York state agency. The Social Security Administration in New York City says that the Social Security numbers were stolen by a subcontractor who was working in Office of Temporary Disability Assistance making computer infrastructure upgrades. The administration says, while performing the upgrades,…
California public health dept. announces lost tape had medical and personal info on residents and workers
Wow – two state departments of public health reveal breaches in a 24-hour period? First it was Connecticut, reported on this blog earlier today, and now California. Here’s a statement from the California Department of Public Health: The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has reported to state authorities that a missing magnetic tape, delivered from one…
Do Walgreens, McDonald’s, and deviantART breaches have common point of compromise? (updated)
Dan Goodin reports: FBI agents looking into the theft of customer data belonging to McDonald’s are investigating similar breaches that may have hit more than 100 other companies that used email marketing services from Atlanta-based Silverpop Systems . “The breach is with Silverpop, an email service provider that has over 105 customers,” Stephen Emmett, a…