So it appears that Equifax mistakenly sent a woman in Maine 300 other people’s credit reports after she requested her own. Read about it on WGME and BDN. So far, Equifax hasn’t offered any explanation as to how this occurred, but given how embarrassing this is for them, I’m sure they’ll follow up.
Category: U.S.
IL: Three students expelled from Effingham High School
Jeff Long and Bill Grimes report: The school board on Thursday expelled three Effingham High School students — one until the end of the 2015-16 school year and two until March 19, 2017. The expulsions took effect immediately. Although school officials would not explain the reason for the expulsions, citing student privacy laws, Effingham County…
Credit card data breach at LAX
KABC reports: Credit card data has been compromised for an unknown number of people at the Tom Bradley International Terminal in the Los Angeles International Airport. Airport police were focusing their investigation on one specific business inside the terminal, but did not release the name of the business Read more on KABC. CBS reports that 19…
Chicago woman to plead in ID theft case involving patient information
Here’s the latest on a case previously noted on this site. Teresa Auch Schultz reports: A Chicago woman claims her boss used her Gary business to help run an identity theft ring that stole information from clients at a medical center. Montrease Young detailed her own role in the theft, as well as the role…
TX: ID Theft Conspiracy Leader Sentenced To 16 Years In Federal Prison And Ordered To Pay $88,131 In Restitution
There’s a follow-up to a case first reported on this site in November 2011. A Cedar Hill, Texas man, who was convicted at trial on various federal felony offenses stemming from an identity (ID) theft conspiracy he ran in the metroplex from October 2009 to July 2013, was sentenced today, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John…
Wyndham: A Case Study in Cybersecurity: How the cost of a relatively small breach can rival that of a major hack attack
Timothy Cornell of Clifford Chance US LLP has an interesting write-up on the Wyndham case that really details the time and labor costs of responding to a government investigation following a data breach. Here’s an example: On April 8, 2010, the FTC began to investigate Wyndham Worldwide and three of its subsidiaries (collectively “Wyndham”), sending Wyndham…