Ken Christian reports: A data breach is affecting the bank accounts of what is potentially thousands of Mainers. John Murphy, President of the Maine Credit Union League told NEWS CENTER says the suspicious activity was noticed during the last several days. Murphy says members are seeing activity on their cards that were not purchases they…
Category: U.S.
OH: Envelopes Display Workers’ Social Security Numbers
A mass mailing has made some very private information public. More than 8,000 state child-care providers have had their social security numbers accidentally exposed, 10TV’s Glenn McEntyre reported on Monday. The providers received letters from Affiliated Computer Services, which is a subsidiary of Xerox. The company was hired by the state of Ohio to manage…
Former L.A. County social worker pleads guilty in identity theft
This is a follow-up to a case previously reported on this blog but adds more details about the number of victims and crime. A former employee with the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services pleaded guilty this past week to federal charges and admitted that he filed federal tax returns in the names of…
(update) NC: U.B.E. breach victims total continues to climb
Jackie Drake reports: Greenville Police are handling at least 100 complaints so far from East Carolina University students who say they lost money after their accounts were compromised in a recent security breach at the University Book Exchange. The breach is believed to have occurred between Jan. 5 and Jan. 25 and the case is…
Bank of America website exposes customer accounts, data
Ray Wert reports on Jalopnik that Bank of America’s online banking system experienced a security breach or glitch that enabled logged in users to see other people’s accounts: Someone very close to me called moments ago and told me that when she logged into her Bank of America account earlier this evening she saw, rather…
HHC Press release on backup tapes stolen from GRM van
The following statement was issued by Health and Hospital Corporation yesterday concerning a breach reported on this blog earlier today: The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) this week began to notify nearly 1.7 million patients and hospital staff, as well as the employees of vendors, contractors, and others – who were all…