Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Guatemalan national was sentenced in federal court yesterday for aggravated identity theft in connection to a conspiracy to provide false identity documents so that more than 100 illegal immigrants could fraudulently obtain driver’s and non-driver’s licenses from the license office in…
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Analyst sees Target data breach costs topping $1 billion
Tom Webb reports: Two months into the Target security breach, fraud is turning up on 10 percent to 15 percent of the stolen card accounts, a security specialist says. Based on that brisk level of criminal activity, one Wall Street analyst estimates that perhaps 5 million of the 40 million stolen credit and debit cards…
11 high school students disciplined for keylogging teachers’ computers
Cyrus Farivar has the update to the case of students involving in hacking to change grades at Corona del Mar High School: A hacking scandal involving keyloggers and electronic grade-changing at a high school in Newport Beach, a well-to-do area of Southern California, has resulted in the expulsion of 11 students. TheOrange County Register reported Wednesday that six…
URM updates breach notification
URM Stores has posted an update to a breach disclosed in November. The update indicates that the attack was “similar to” attacks reported by other grocery chains and retailers. URM was first alerted to the breach on October 31 by a bank, but its preliminary investigation did not uncover any signs of an attack. After…
Vengeful EnerVest Operating network engineer pleads guilty to intentionally damaging computer system
CHARLESTON – United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a former network engineer at Charleston-based EnerVest Operating pleaded guilty to intentionally causing damage to his employer’s computer system. Ricky Joe Mitchell, 34, now of Mableton, GA, admitted that in June of 2012, shortly after he learned that he was going to be fired, he…
Norwalk, Ohio Mayor: Sorry about the SSN on postcards
Tom Jackson reports: Norwalk’s mayor says city officials regret mailing out thousands of postcards that list the Social Security numbers of local taxpayers. City officials have asked the recipients to destroy the cards, and they’ve already mailed out substitute cards that omit the sensitive numbers. “Obviously, we’re very sorry and we wish it had never happened,”…