Josh Stockinger reports: A West Chicago woman has filed a federal lawsuit against Michaels, claiming the arts-and-crafts giant failed to protect customers from “cyber-pickpockets” who stole sensitive banking information from checkout keypads at stores in 20 states. The suit filed this week in Illinois’ northern district seeks class-action status and more than $5 million in…
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MN: Delta Dental Disk with The Smile Center Patient Data on It Stolen Months Ago; No One Notified Patients?! (update1)
Patients at The Smile Center in St. Paul, Minnesota don’t have much to smile about this week. Bill Keller reports on another disturbing breach – one that reportedly occurred four months ago but victims are first being notified now: Delta Dental is announcing that personal information used in a lawsuit between the company and a…
Email exposed 4,000 Securities and Exchange Commission employees
Shan Li reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission is having some security problems. About 4,000 agency employees, including several in Los Angeles, have been notified that their social security numbers and other payroll information were included accidentally in an unencrypted email, said Drew Malcomb, an Interior Department spokesman. The May 4 email was sent by…
(update) Massachusetts breach affected over 200,000
As a quick update: Matt Liebowitz of SecurityNewsDaily.com reports that the Massachusetts data breach disclosed yesterday may have impacted 210,000.
Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development Reports a Virus Infiltrated the Computer Systems of Agencies tied to Employers, Unemployed Claimants and Career Center Customers
The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) today reported that the Departments of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) and Career Services (DCS) network, individual computer terminals as well as individual computers at the One Stop Career Centers were infected with the W32.QAKBOT virus, a new strain of a computer virus, beginning on April 20, 2011….
FL: Pasco couple used stolen IDs, bogus tax returns to pocket cash, deputies say
Molly Moorhead reports: A woman who worked at a Regions bank branch is accused of creating nearly 200 phony bank accounts using real people’s names and information, filing fraudulent tax returns in the victims’ names and then funneling the money to her boyfriend. All told, authorities say, Howayda Hamdan, 28, had more than $1 million…