Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman report: The FBI’s probe into the security of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s e-mail has expanded to include a second private technology company, which said Tuesday it plans to provide the law enforcement agency with data it preserved from Clinton’s account. The additional data, provided by Connecticut-based Datto Inc., could open…
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T-Mobile customers affected by the Experian breach can sign up with CSID for identity protection services
If you are a T-Mobile customer whose data was caught up in the Experian breach, there is now an alternative to the two-year offer of Experian’s ProtectMyID service. T-Mobile has made arrangements with CSID as an alternative. You can read the details and sign up at https://www.csid.com/t-mobile/ . Thanks to Steve Ragan for sharing that info with me….
Six Cuban Nationals Indicted for Conspiracy to Commit Access Device Fraud, Access Device Fraud in Skimmers scheme
U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced Friday that six Cuban nationals who reside in Florida were indicted for conspiracy to commit access device fraud and two counts of access device fraud. JULIET ESTRADA PEREZ, age 22; LUIS RIVERA GARCIA, age 26, JESUS ENRIQUE GONZALES TORRES, age 23, ORLANDO GUILLEN DIAZ, age 29, YOETNIS VAZQUEZ PEDROSA, age 31, and YILIAM TORRES, age 23,…
Affinity Health Plan notifies members of PHI breach
Affinity Health Plan notified 496 heads of household within Affinity’s membership on August 21, 2015, about the disclosure of some of their personal information via a mailing of Child Health Plus renewal letters. A sample of the notification letter sent to affected households can be found in this link, which explains the incident in greater detail. On…
California Trucking Executive and Alleged Computer Hacker Arrested for Extorting $40,000 from Chicago-Area Software Company
The president of a southern California trucking company plotted with a Serbian man to extort $40,000 from a Chicago-area software company by hacking into the company’s computer system and threatening to disclose the data, federal authorities announced Friday. STEFAN STOJANOVIC, 20, of Zemun, Serbia, hacked into the company’s servers in May and threatened to expose sensitive…
MI: Man wants to return personal docs found in illegal dumping
Randy Wimbley reports: Illegal dumping in Detroit is not uncommon – but one case in Brightmoor is especially alarming. […] A moderate pile of junk included personal documents from the Social Security Administration and the Ferndale Housing Commission. Read more on FOX2 Detroit. The data appeared to be from 2009 – 2013, but since SSN…