Attorney General George Jepsen of CT and Attorney General Douglas Gansler of Maryland have written to LivingSocial to request more information on their recent breach and how it may impact consumers. Their actions were announced in a press release yesterday. The Attorneys General have asked the company to provide a detailed timeline of the incident,…
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TN: Mayor’s donation check among records found in dumpster
Andy Wise reports: The director of an adult literacy charity is trying to figure out how the personal information of former associates and donors, including Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, were piled up inside the charity’s dumpster. “It absolutely should not have happened,” said Kevin Dean, executive director of Literacy Mid-South, based in Cooper-Young. “It was…
Alabama Man Indicted for Multi-Million Dollar Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme Using Prisoner Identities
A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment charging Harvey James for using stolen identities to file false tax returns, the Justice Department the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced yesterday. The 34-count indictment charges James with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to the indictment, Harvey James obtained stolen identities from individuals…
LivingSocial Hacked — More Than 50 Million Customer Names, Emails, Birthdates and Encrypted Passwords Accessed (Internal Memo)
Update: Double-WOW. Their breach notice is already up on the California Attorney General’s web site. According to their submission to the state, the breach occurred on April 5 and was discovered on April 12. Original post follows: Wow. AllThingsD.com is reporting: LivingSocial, the daily deals site owned in part by Amazon, has suffered a massive…
When, oh when, will people stop leaving unencrypted laptops in their cars?
OptiNose US Inc. has been notifying some of its consultants that their names and Social Security numbers were on a laptop stolen from an employee’s car. The laptop was stolen on March 26 in a Philadelphia suburb, and OptiNose started sending out notification letters on April 16. The letter did not inform recipients that the…
‘Hacker’ convicted by US court despite never hacking
Matt Brian has an interesting take on the conviction of David Nosal, which I reported yesterday on this blog: After more than a year of bouncing between appeals courts, the hacking case involving David Nosal has ended with a conviction. Wired reports that Nosal was yesterday found guilty of conspiracy, stealing trade secrets, and violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse…