Dan Browning reports: Jurors in St. Paul returned guilty verdicts Thursday against four participants in a wide-ranging identity fraud ring based in the Twin Cities that bilked about $2 million from banks and retailers across 14 states. The defendants were among 28 people charged in the conspiracy; their co-defendants have all pleaded guilty. Read more…
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Data Breach at Boston Water and Sewer Commission
Iran Kantor reports: The Boston Water and Sewer Commission has been informed that a contractor working to upgrade the Commission’s meter reading software is unable to locate a hard drive that may have contained the commission’s water and sewer account information, according to a letter sent out to residents earlier this month. The missing drive…
PA: Hacker hands Barto manufacturer $190,000 loss
Anthony Orozco reports: A hacker broke into a Berks County manufacturer’s computer system and stole nearly $200,000, according to state police. The banking system at CWI Railroad System Specialists, a Barto company that manufactures train engine parts, was hacked last month, troopers said. The hacker entered the company’s system and issued payments to banks in…
Follow-up: Still no word on New Haven city laptop stolen in May
Jordan Fenster reports that a computer stolen in May has not been recovered: Three months after a computer containing the personal information of thousands of city residents was stolen from a public library, the information has not been recovered and no arrests have been made. On May 18, a laptop used by an employee for…
NH: State prison officials investigating after prisoners gain access to another server on the network
Maddie Hanna reports: Inmates at the state prison in Concord gained unauthorized access to a Department of Corrections computer network, but prison officials have not determined whether they viewed, stole or changed any records. The security breach, the first of its kind at the prison, involved computers used by about 20 inmates in the prison’s…
BMO Harris Bank notifies customers after laptop stolen from vendor
In the healthcare sector today, Harris County Hospital District reported a breach. In the financial sector, it’s BMO Harris Bank reporting a breach today. Any other Harris’s want to disclose a breach so we can have a Harris breach trifecta? Paul Gores reports: BMO Harris Bank said Thursday it has sent letters to an undisclosed number…