The Continental American Insurance Company (Aflac) is notifying some customers that a former temporary employee improperly accessed customer data, including names and Social Security numbers. Although the firm has no indication of any misuse of the data, affected customers are being offered a year of free credit-monitoring services through ProtectMyID. You can read the January…
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Hotel Franchise Firm White Lodging Investigates Breach
And another shoe drops. Brian Krebs reports: White Lodging, a company that maintains hotel franchises under nationwide brands including Hilton, Marriott, Sheraton and Westin appears to have suffered a data breach that exposed credit and debit card information on thousands of guests throughout much of 2013, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Earlier this month, multiple sources in the banking industry began sharing data…
FL: Plant City Woman Sentenced to Prison in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme
U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Jennifer Meier Hunt to two years and six months in federal prison for committing stolen identity refund fraud. As part of her sentence, the court also entered a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $97,238, representing the proceeds of the tax fraud. Hunt pleaded guilty to…
Guatemalan National Sentenced For ID Theft; More Than 100 Illegal Aliens Used False ID In Scheme To Obtain Licenses
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…
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…