Thanks to Rian of RedTeam Protection, here are some more breaches they uncovered: An executive producer at a Manhattan based television Production Company published 2,755 documents onto the gnutella file-sharing network. Contractors of this firm were required to provide their name, date of birth, and social security number for tax purposes. The invoices with personal…
Category: U.S.
Floridians warned about ID data breach at Wyndham Hotels
Note: this is an update to a breach we reported here last month and that occurred last summer. In addition to the Florida story below, Wyndham reported to NYS that the breach affected 8,787 NYS residents (report not yet available online). Attorney General Bill McCollum is asking Floridians to monitor their credit statements to ensure…
AL: Computer Hacking at UA (updated)
Diana Moorer reports: Thousands of people in West Alabama are learning their personal information could be at risk. According to a University of Alabama spokesperson, a small portion of the university’s computer system was recently breached by a hacker. UA said they discovered the intrusion and took steps to block further unauthorized access. The university…
CA: Attorney General Brown Announces Two Arrests in $1.34 Million Medicare Fraud Case
Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the arrests of two individuals who “hatched a scheme” to file false claims under Medicare for medical services that were never performed. “The defendants hatched a scheme to bilk Medicare out of more than a million dollars,” Attorney General Brown said. “They stole the identities of people…
GA: Clayton deputies’ personal information, files compromised
Megan Matteucci reports: Clayton County Sheriff Kem Kimbrough is investigating a security breach after some deputies’ personal information was taken from internal files. The records include Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, employee identification numbers and an inmate’s medical information. Some internal investigation files have also turned up missing. Kimbrough…
First arrests made in Heartland data breach case
Chuck Miller reports: Three men have been arrested in Tallahasee, Fla., in connection with the Heartland Payment Systems data breach, authorities said. The men, Tony Acreus, Jeremy Frazier and Timothy Johns, each were charged with multiple counts of credit card fraud, police said. The arrests were part of a larger investigation into the breach, […]…