Brian Wright reports: A report from the Administrative Office of the Courts found more than 40 ongoing criminal cases involved possible unauthorized access to sealed documents by the Pinal County Attorney’s Office. From the moment Amanda Stanford took office in January as clerk of the Superior Court in Pinal County, she drew attention to the…
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NJ: Breakwater Beach security breach puts hundreds of employee documents online
Karin Price Mueller reports: Hundreds of documents containing personal information of some employees at Jenkinson’s Breakwater Beach Waterpark at Casino Pier in Seaside Heights have been available online to anyone who clicks in the right place, Bamboozled has learned. The documents include copies of Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, birth certificates, passports, student IDs, tax forms,…
Insurance Services Office database breached; insurance data accessed
New Jersey-based Insurance Services Office (ISO), a provider of information and analytics to the property and casualty insurance industry, manages a database of insurance information, which includes data on participating insurers’ policyholders. This week, they are notifying an undisclosed number of consumers that an investigation conducted by a county prosecutor’s office in New Jersey confirmed that…
722 UPMC Health Plan customers affected by data breach
Rich Lord reports: UPMC Health Plan has suffered a data breach, and today notified its members, according to a spokeswoman for the insurer. Neither Social Security numbers nor medical information was included in the lost material, wrote Gina Pferdehirt, director of public relations for UPMC Health Plan, in an email response to questions. “So while…
Hacker Gets 13 Years in Prison for Massive International ID Theft
There’s an important update in the case that involved Court Ventures/U.S. Info/Experian, and Dun & Bradstreet, although the government doesn’t name the businesses in its press release. James Eng reports: A Vietnamese national was sentenced to 13 years in prison for hacking into U.S. businesses’ computers, stealing personally identifiably information (PII), and selling to other cybercriminals his fraudulently-obtained…
Update: Former Dothan police officer faces more ID theft charges
Matt Elofson reports: A former Dothan police officer faces more identity theft charges after his recent arrest by Dothan police investigators. Dothan Police Investigator Erik Broten confirmed police officers arrested Charles Thomas Simmer, 28, of Coffee Springs, over the weekend and charged him with two felony counts of identity theft. Dothan police investigators arrested Simmer…