Olivia Levoy of USA Today reports: The cyberattack on JP Morgan Chase & Co. first announced in July comprised information from 76 million households and 7 million small businesses, the company revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday. Contact information, including name, address, phone number and email address, as well as…
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Former State of Alabama Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Identities from State Databases
WTVY reports: 30-year-old Tamika Floyd a resident of Salem, Ala., pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of aggravated identity theft for her involvement in a Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme (SIRF), announced Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and…
JPMorgan Discovers Further Cyber Security Issues (UPDATED)
UPDATED: JPMorgan Chase told CNBC it was not aware of a new cyber attack on its computer network, striking down the NY Times article cited below. Original post: Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Matthew Goldstein report: For the second time in roughly three months, JPMorgan Chase is scrambling to contain the fallout from a security breach of its vast computer network,…
FL: Former corrections officer sent to prison for stealing inmate identities
Tampa Bay Times reports an update to a previously noted case: A former state correctional officer from Tampa has been sentenced to federal prison for more than four years for stealing the identity of inmates to file fraudulent tax returns. Jerry St. Fleur, 26, was given four years and three months in prison for wire…
NC: 2 charged with ID theft
WCNC reports: Police arrested a man and woman accused of identity theft in the Charlotte area. CMPD charged Brent Caltagirone and Karima Lane with identity theft and conspiracy to commit identity theft and trafficking in stolen IDs on September 26. Detectives determined through an investigation that Caltagirone was given the names and social security numbers…
Provo City School District suffers data breach
Barbara Christiansen reports: Employees of the Provo City School District may have an extra concern facing them as the district has discovered a data breach. There was a phishing attack and someone gained access to an employee’s email account. That account contained files with sensitive, personal identification information for about half of the district’s employees….