On September 30, there was an update from the IRS’s Criminal Investigation unit to an insider breach previously reported on this blog: The final two defendants charged in relation to an identity theft scam that used identities stolen from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services to file fraudulent tax returns were sentenced…
Category: U.S.
Genesis Rehabilitation Services employee loses unencrypted thumb drive with employees’ information
Genesis Rehabilitation Services in Pennsylvania reports that an employee lost a thumb drive with the unencrypted personal information of 33 employees, agency employees, or applicants to GRS. The information on the drive included individuals’ names, postal or email addresses, and Social Security numbers. The drive had reportedly been left in a secure office at Lebanon Center,…
FL: Former Broward court clerk pleads guilty to ID theft
Tonya Alanez reports on yet another insider breach as part of a tax refund fraud ring in Florida. This one involves a Broward County court clerk: Porscha Kyles, 25, of Davie, pleaded guilty Monday to using her work computer to steal drivers’ names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and other personal information while working at the…
Update: Adobe Breach Impacted At Least 38 Million Users
Brian Krebs has updated his investigation into the Adobe hack that was originally reported to have affected 2.9 million customers. In a post on KrebsonSecurity.com today, Brian writes that at least 38 million are affected. But just this past weekend, AnonNews.org posted a huge file called “users.tar.gz” that appears to include more than 150 million username and…
Alabama Man Pleads Guilty To His Involvement In An Identity Theft Scheme Using Stolen Prisoner Names
Harvey James pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft for his role in a tax refund fraud scheme using stolen inmate information. The plea was announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama George…
Brit charged with hacking U.S. military networks
Jonathan Stempel reports: A British man has been arrested in England and charged by the United States and Britain with infiltrating U.S. government computer systems, including those run by the military, to steal confidential data and disrupt operations, authorities said. U.S. prosecutors said the alleged hacker, Lauri Love, infiltrated thousands of computer systems including those…