California Department of Social Services is notifying over 700,000 In-Home Supportive Services providers and recipients that their data may have been lost. An FAQ on the department’s web site explains that CDSS became aware of the breach on May 9. The information was in a package that was damaged in transit between a Hewlett Packard…
Category: U.S.
UNC-Charlotte breach affects 350,000
Remember that breach that the University of North Carolina at Charlotte disclosed back in February? Well, they’ve finally released some details and it’s a doozy. Chris Dyches reports: An investigation into the incident shows that financial account numbers and approximately 350,000 social security numbers were included among the exposed data. The exposure has been remediated, officials…
OR: Former Bank Manager Guilty of Identity Theft, Bank Fraud
Another insider breach involving bank personnel: Randy Arlan Mainwaring, 41, former manager of the Thurston Branch of Key Bank in Springfield, Oregon, pled guilty to identity theft and bank fraud in federal court Monday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 17, 2012 before U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan. In pleading guilty, Mainwaring…
TX: Former Capital One Bank employee pleads guilty in ID theft scheme
Jamal Gerard Mose-Burrel, 22, of Houston, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft last week. Mose-Burrel, who formerly worked for Capital One Bank, admitted that he used Capital One Bank systems to provide a co-conspirator identified only as “T.J.” with the personal information and bank account information of…
There are hacks, and then there are hacks: AntiSec exposes Lake County Sheriff’s Office operational manuals and information
In case you missed it when I posted it to DataLossDB.org, individuals who self-identy as associated with AntiSec hacked – and then dumped – a lot of sensitive files from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. The hackers announced the hack on April 28 with a video and a listing of some data and…
Post-Manning, Army wants to monitor your computer activity
Joe Gould reports: In the wake of the biggest dump of classified information in the history of the Army, the brass is searching for ways to watch what every soldier is doing on his or her Army computer. The Army wants to look at keystrokes, downloads and Web searches on computers that soldiers use. […]…