As a follow-up to a case reported here previously, Kim Zetter reports that a former Bank of America employee, Rodney Reed Caverly, pleaded guilty Tuesday to installing malware on more than 100 ATMs, and stealing $304,000 over a seven-month period. Authorities were able to recover at least $167,000 in cash after the worker told U.S….
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(follow-up) Leak of Atlanta firefighter data due to filesharing
Some additional information on a leak involving personal information on some Atlanta firefighters suggests that the files wound up on the Internet due to a filesharing program. As interesting, some city officials first found out about the leak during a security workshop where a presenter used the data as an example of what you can…
(follow-up) District Data Breach Leads to Prison Time
Dian Schaffhauser reports: A Washington State man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to 31 counts of criminal activity, most related to a school district data breach. Christopher Berge, now 21, was a student at Mountain View High School in Evergreen Public Schools when he “shoulder surfed”–physically observed–a password used…
NY: Cops: Medical records clerk stole patients’ identities
Christen Gowan reports: A medical records clerk from St. Peter’s Hospital was arrested on charges of stealing patients’ personal information and using it to open credit card accounts, police said, and more unknowing victims could be out there. Albany County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Johnathan Harwood, 23, of Van Buren Avenue, on Monday for opening credit…
Credit applications found near store Dumpster
Lisa Beisel reports: Reginald Faust of Annapolis was walking with his wife when he noticed a piece of paper – a credit application for the Room Store, he later realized – on the ground near a Dumpster in the shopping center across from the mall on Jennifer Road. He was one of several walkers in…
County workers warned of ID theft in retirement association
Carol Ferguson reports: Thousands of local government employees and retirees have been warned after a case of identity theft turned up in the Kern County Employees’ Retirement Association. A former KCERA worker is accused of using a member’s information to access a retirement fund, and Eyewitness News has learned that worker was convicted of fraud…