R. Stickney updates us on the ACORN breach reported yesterday: ACORN says a man who took thousands of documents from a trash bin outside its San Diego County office broke the law and is demanding he return them. Amy Schur, who heads California’s ACORN operations, said Tuesday that her group filed a crime report with…
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Radiant Systems and Computer World responsible for breach affecting restaurants – lawsuit
There’s been a lot of coverage of the lawsuits against Heartland Payment Systems, a payment processor fined by both Visa and Mastercard for not being PCI-DSS compliant. Now a class-action lawsuit by seven restaurants claims that dozens of restaurants may have become victims of card fraud because systems provided to the restaurants by Radiant Systems…
SC: Social Security, county bank account numbers accidentally made public
Copies of a report into past Anderson County finances, released to the public last week, contained Social Security numbers for two people, business tax identification numbers for two companies and three active county bank account numbers. The nearly 1,000-page report is still available for viewing at the historic courthouse in downtown Anderson but the sensitive…
ACORN Dumped Sensitive Documents as Probe Began – PI
Joseph Abrams reports: A private investigator says he found tens of thousands of sensitive documents dumped outside a California ACORN office just days after the state attorney general announced an inquiry into the community organizing group. Derrick Roach, a licensed investigator based in San Diego, told FoxNews.com he paid an impromptu visit to the city’s…
Multi-state debit card fraud linked to Hancock Fabrics – police
Linda McGlasson reports: Bank customers in California, Wisconsin and Missouri are reporting fraudulent ATM withdrawals that police say are tied to transactions conducted with the Hancock Fabrics retail chain. In California, Napa Police Department spokesman Brian McGovern says 60 residents reported their cards being used by thieves….. At about the same time, as many as…
Former Johns Hopkins Hospital employee sentenced
The U. of Utah defendants were not the only hospital-breach defendants sentenced this week. Michelle Courtney Johnson, a former patient services coordinator at Johns Hopkins Hospital who was part of an ID theft ring with an employee of Crawford & Company was also sentenced this week. The Associated Press reports that Johnson was sentenced to…