Dawn Chamberlain, a Delaware tax preparer who was charged in March with stealing clients’ identity information to file false tax returns pleaded guilty on Tuesday. She’ll face a maximum of 20 years in prison when she’s sentenced.
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AZ: Former Sheriff’s Office IT employee indicted for computer tampering, ID theft
Phil Benson reports: A former technology expert and telecommunications director at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has been indicted on charges of computer tampering and identity theft. A Maricopa County Grand Jury handed up an indictment against Robert Rampy late last Friday on 14 assorted felony charges. The indictment alleged Rampy wrongfully released and accessed…
vBulletin.com Hacked, Customer Data Stolen
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: Are all recent versions of the vBulletin online forum software vulnerable to a zero-day exploit that would give attackers full access to the targeted system? That’s the claim being made by European hacking group “Inj3ct0r Team,” which Thursday took to Facebook to take credit for recently hacking, not only Macrumors.com, but also vBulletin.com,…
GA: Hundreds of documents with personal info found along Jonesboro intersection
Ashley Swann reports: Some local residents and business owners are on high alert after hundreds of personal documents were found scattered in the middle of a busy Jonesboro intersection. Channel 2’s Ashley Swann spoke with a man who went to help clean up the mess. “We’ve got everything from loan applications to balance sheets, to…
CA: USPS investigating personal information breach in Menlo Park
Vic Lee writes: Customers in Menlo Park were shocked at what they found on the counters at the local post office — social security numbers and other personal information on a pad of scratch paper. It’s a story you’ll only see on ABC7 News. A postal service spokesperson tells us this could have been a…
Western Union dismisses threat of data security breach at PrivatBank
Christopher J. Miller reports: A regional head of the U.S.-based financial services and communications company Western Union said he is not worried about recent security breaches at Ukraine’s largest bank which allowed a hacker to obtain sensitive data of Western Union customers, potentially putting them at risk for fraud. Ulugbek Umarov, Western Union country director…