From TheIndyChannel.com: A major credit card company is investigating how more than a hundreds statements were made available online after an Indiana woman alerted them to the problem. Constance Wilson had logged in to pay her Aspire Visa card bill when she instantly had access to 120 other statements from people in Indiana and 31…
Category: U.S.
Airman indicted for bank fraud stole fellow airmen’s info
An airman assigned to the 19th Medical Support Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base was indicted last week for bank fraud in a scheme that involved him stealing the identities of at least seven other people. A copy of the indictment (pdf), provided to this site by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of…
New deal backed for ID theft case
Virgil Larson of World-Herald News Service reports on the tentative approval of a settlement in the class action lawsuit against TD Ameritrade resulting from a hack in 2006 and 2007 that affected customer contact information on 6.3 million clients. The settlement will not result in any money for class members but the lawyers get almost…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Yomi Jagunna, one of 8 people arrested last year as part of a New Jersey ring, pleaded guilty for his part in setting up a phony collection agency to obtain access to commercial databases where they obtained Social Security numbers and info. Jagunna pleaded guilty to selling 39 SSN, but prosecutors…
D.C. Mistakenly Sends Out 2,400 Students’ Personal Data
Bill Turque of The Washington Post reports one of those email attachment errors that frankly, have been all too common. How about routinely sending a test email before sending the real one to check to see what people will be receiving? Would that be so darned hard to do? The District agency that handles college…
Branch Banking & Trust employee arrested for selling client information
On January 14, law enforcement officials investigating another matter discovered client information from Branch Banking & Trust Co. (BB&T) in the possession of unauthorized individuals. Once alerted to the breach, BB&T conducted an internal investigation and discovered that a former employee who had legitimate access to client accounts had abused the access and had sold…