As I’ve noted in the past, LPL Financial has reported a number of breaches in the past few years, none of which seem to have been reported in the mainstream media. On March 9, the firm reported yet another breach. According to a letter sent by Marc Loewenthal, Senior Vice President and Chief Security/Privacy Officer…
Category: U.S.
Two more newly revealed breaches
There are two newly revealed breaches on the HHS/OCR web site that were not previously reported in the media: Laboratory Corporation of America/Dynacare Northwest, Inc. State: Washington Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 5,080 Date of Breach: 2/12/10 Type of Breach: Theft Location of Breached Information: Laptop Lee Memorial Health System State: Florida Approx. # of…
Detective: Hundreds could be victims of identity theft
Travis County [Texas] deputies have arrested a man who they say is responsible for hundreds of cases of identity theft. Piles of checks, drivers’ licenses, gift cards and receipts blanketed a table at the Travis County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday. “We recovered 70 fake Texas licenses and ID cards, 628 stolen and counterfeit checks,” said Detective…
Four Florida women indicted in theft of cancer patients’ information
Jeffrey H. Sloman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael Fithen, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service, announced the unsealing of a nine count indictment charging defendants Sharita Hubbard, 31, Onakia Griffin, 31, Lakenya Knight, 33, all of Pompano Beach, Florida, and Cherralyn Milton-Browner, 37, for their alleged participation…
MyPilotStore.com hack results in false charges on customers’ cards
On February 18, MyPlane, dba MyPilotStore.com, discovered that their database containing their customers’ names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and credit card information had been hacked. According to the firm, some customers received a “nominal fake charge to their credit card by a company not associated with us.” By letter dated March 19, MyPilotStore notified…
Gateway Community College also reported breach
So while I was looking for information on the Three Rivers Community College report, I stumbled across another incident handled by csIDentity.com. The page is no longer available except in Google’s cache: During a recent security review of the computers at Gateway Community College, it was discovered that certain personal information associated with a number…