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NY: Hacker stole $378,000 from town account, sent it to Ukraine

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Dissent

Michael Valkys reports: A computer hacker broke into a Town of Poughkeepsie bank account and stole $378,000 by transferring the money to banks in Ukraine, Supervisor Patricia Myers said Wednesday. Ending two weeks of silence about the incident, Myers read a statement before the Town Board’s meeting at Town Hall. She said four illegal transfers…

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(Update) Texas man convicted for his role in fraud, ID theft scheme

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Dissent

To update a case reported here previously: The Associated Press reports that Dennis Savarese has been convicted of identity fraud for his role in a scheme to steal credit cards from health club locker rooms and convert them into $400,000 worth of cash at gambling facilities. Savarese was convicted in U.S. District Court in Boston…

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Hackers Try to Steal $150,000 from United Way

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Dissent

Brian Krebs writes: Hackers broke into computer systems at a Massachusetts chapter of the United Way last month and attempted to make off with more than $150,000 from one of the nation’s largest charities. Patricia Latimore, chief financial officer at the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimac Valley, said unknown attackers tried to initiate…

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Highmark notifies members of new ‘data spill’

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Dissent

Highmark was notifying some 3,700 members on Wednesday that documents containing their names, policy identification and social security numbers were missing, the second such data spill for the region’s dominant health insurer in four months. In January, the company mailed a premium billing statement to Boscov’s Department Store, a client in Reading, according to Highmark….

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TX: (follow-up) Memorial Hermann worker sentenced for bank fraud, ID theft

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Dissent

As a follow-up to a case previously mentioned on this site: A former patient care assistant of a Houston area hospital has been sentenced to prison for bank fraud and stealing the identities of patients, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Nakeshia Brown, 30, of Houston, was sentenced to a total of 60 months…

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Possible vendor’s breach may explain some BlackHat attendees being spammed

Posted on February 3, 2010 by Dissent

The following is cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org: Earlier this week, PogoWasRight.org was contacted by an individual who reported that after attending BlackHat 2009, he recently started receiving spam at a unique e-mail address he had created specifically for Breach Security. After receiving spam, he contacted them to change the e-mail address to another unique e-mail address,…

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