Kipp Hanley reports: Nearly 80,000 former adult education students’ personal information stored on a flash drive was lost in Richmond on Sept. 21 according to a Virginia Department of Education press release issued Wednesday. The information went missing after being given to a representative of Virginia Tech’s Center for Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Programming for…
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Audit of DRS data breach completed
Patricia Daddona reports: An audit of a 2007 data breach of state taxpayer’s personal information on a stolen laptop shows the state took too long to address the situation but has since made strides to prevent future incidents. Two years ago, some 106,000 Connecticut taxpayers’ names and Social Security numbers were compromised when an employee,…
Bank of Bermuda moves to protect customers after security breach
From the your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine dept, Amanda Dale reports: Several hundred Bank of Bermuda accounts were closed yesterday and cards cancelled as an overseas retailer reported a breach in customer security. Bank spokeswoman Susan Jackson said: “Bank of Bermuda received notification from Visa and MasterCard that an overseas vendor has been compromised and that a number of…
Big-Box Breach: The Inside Story of Wal-Mart’s Hacker Attack
Kim Zetter reports: Wal-Mart was the victim of a serious security breach in 2005 and 2006 in which hackers targeted the development team in charge of the chain’s point-of-sale system and siphoned source code and other sensitive data to a computer in Eastern Europe, Wired.com has learned. Internal documents reveal for the first time that…
Two charged in superseding indictment for their roles in a $30 million bank fraud and ID theft ring
A Miami Beach, Fla., man and his driver were charged Thursday in a Superseding Indictment for their roles in a telemarketing fraud and identity theft scheme that attempted to defraud financial institutions and their account holders throughout the United States of millions of dollars through the unauthorized and fraudulent debit of customer bank accounts. Acting…
Police look into shredder bin theft
Linda Golz reports: Authorities are investigating the thefts this week of large bins used to store paper waiting to be shredded from three FirstMerit Bank branches in Streetsboro, Westlake and Elyria. […] FirstMerit spokesman Rob Townsend said just one of the stolen containers actually had customer and bank information in it. Townsend said he is…