NBC6 reports: A Hollywood man was arrested after he was found with the personal information of dozens of victims, including students, police said. Renardo Anthony Smith, 22, is facing 62 counts of criminal use of personal identification information, according to a Miami-Dade Schools Police report. Read more on NBC6.
Category: U.S.
FL: Tax security form mailing error exposes 1,200 taxpayers’ Form 1098 information
Mike Deeson: We are learning more about a tax form mailing mixup that is much more wide spread than we originally thought. The mailing error, which involved Form 1098 mailings, and which affected people as far away as Tennessee, was traced back to an error by a mailing service used by Multi Financial Services: Ryan is…
Ca: Iggy Azalea threatens to sue Papa John’s after pizza delivery boy ‘data breach’
CBC News reports: Iggy Azalea is threatening to sue American pizza chain Papa John’s after the rapper says a delivery boy gave her personal phone number to family and friends. The 24-year-old Fancy singer, who would have been getting ready for the Grammys at the time, shared a screen grab Sunday that appears to show one of “tons” of messages she received after ordering a…
Tax return fraud widespread, possibly linked to stolen login credentials to online tax filing accounts
Herb Weisbaum reports: The recent flood of fraudulent tax returns — both state and federal — is the work of “a criminal gang, possibly working outside the country,” a leading cyber security expert told NBC News. Haywood Talcove, CEO for government solutions at LexisNexis, believes the gang is using stolen user names and passwords to gain…
Uber Apparently Left Part of Its Lost and Found Database Public
Jason Koebler reports: Someone named Angelica left a Patti Smith record in the back of her Uber on February 5th. I know this, and Angelica’s phone number, because Uber has left its internal lost-and-found records on a publicly accessible site. Read more on Motherboard. The Uber url that leaked the data is now 404.
TX: Lubbock Housing Authority assisting applicants after data leak
Matt Dotray reports that Texas residents who filed a Section 8 application with the Lubbock Housing Authority for rent assistance may have had their names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and estimated income exposed on the LHA’s web site when the wrong (unredacted) file was uploaded on December 23, instead of the redacted-SSN one. The file remained online…