Two Romanian natives residing in Queens, N.Y., were sentenced today to prison terms for a scheme to steal account information from bank customers throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut by installing secret card-reading devices on ATMs, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Ioan Leusca, a/k/a “Ionel Spinu,” 30, and Dezso Gyapias, a/k/a “Valentin Folea,”…
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Two Sigma Analyst Charged With Confidential Data Theft
Chris Dolmetsch and Tiffany Kary report: An employee of Two Sigma Investments LLC, an $18 billion quantitative hedge fund, was charged by New York prosecutors with stealing computer data from the company, the latest in a growing number of proprietary financial firm theft cases brought by the Manhattan district attorney. Two Sigma sued Kang Gao,…
University of Maryland discloses data breach involving 309,079 records (Update 2)
Letter from President Loh February 19, 2014 Dear students, faculty, and staff of the University of Maryland (at College Park and Shady Grove): Last evening, I was notified by Brian Voss, Vice President of Information Technology, that the University of Maryland was the victim of a sophisticated computer security attack that exposed records containing personal…
Arizona law firm files notice of claim over Maricopa County Community College District breach; class-action lawsuit to follow?
I’m somewhat surprised this took so long. Back in October, I blogged about a breach involving the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) in Arizona. The breach involved sensitive information such as names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and bank account information of 2.49 million students, former students, vendors and employees. Judging by the almost 100 comments in…
UK: Stradishall hacker Lauri Love re-bailed over the charge of hacking US Army and NASA computer systems
More on the Lauri Love case. Debra Fox reports: A baptist minister’s son charged with hacking into American computer systems has been re-bailed until May. Lauri Love, of Stradishall, was arrested in October last year under the Computer Misuse Act on suspicion of hacking into systems including those of the US Army and NASA. He…
Blue Shield of California notifies agents that their SSN was exposed
Blue Shield of California is notifying some agents that their Tax Identification Numbers – which are often the agents’ Social Security Numbers – were accidentally disclosed to some of the agents’ clients who attempted to pay their bills online. In a letter dated today, BSC writes that the problem with SSN exposure existed between December…