Jasmine Rogers reports: Suspicious charges connected to cards swiped at Hickory Grove, a gas station and grocery store along Ohio 339, have been traced back to at least a month ago. While close to 100 people have already reported fraudulent charges, that number could climb as high as 200 or 300 as more people begin…
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NY: Email gaffe at Syracuse City Hall affects retired police officers
Jim Kenyon reports: The President of the Retired Police Officers Association says it came as quite a scare to 300 retired Syracuse police officers when they received this letter from Syracuse City Hall on Friday. […] The letter told the retired cops that there was a data breach within the Personnel Department. The retired officers and their dependents (sic) personal information including names, addresses and social security numbers had been compromised. […] According…
Sally Beauty revises report, acknowledges some customer data stolen
Sally Beauty has updated its report on a security breach first disclosed by security researcher Brian Krebs: In a new statement on their website, they write: As we previously stated on March 5th, our systems detected an unauthorized attempted intrusion into our Sally Beauty Supply LLC network. At the time of this discovery, we immediately…
Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It
I finally got around to reading this fascinating report by Michael Riley, Ben Elgin, Dune Lawrence, and Carol Matlack for Bloomberg Businessweek. This goes far beyond other media coverage about how Target “missed” or “ignored” FireEye alerts and really gives more details of how the breach occurred.
MN: Former state employee who led ID theft ring gets 4.5 years
Emily Gurnon reports: A former state Department of Labor and Industry worker was sentenced Friday to 4-1/2 years in prison for her role in a broad identity-theft ring. Roxanne Kay DeFlorin was the last of four defendants sentenced in Ramsey County District Court in the scheme, which included DeFlorin’s theft of identities from her job….
PNC claims former employee, Morgan Stanley stole information
From the bring-your-own-device-to-work dept.: Brian Bowling reports: A former senior vice president of PNC Bank‘s Palm Beach Office used her cell phone to snap pictures of her computer screen just hours before she resigned to take a job with a competitor, the Pittsburgh-based bank claims in a federal lawsuit filed Friday. PNC Bank and PNC…