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Category: U.S.

Former Countrywide clients to get reimbursement

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Dissent

AP is reporting: Connecticut officials say the new owners of Countrywide Financial Corp. have agreed to pay the state $350,000 and reimburse customers who had to freeze their credit after a massive data breach. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell says about 30,000 people in Connecticut were affected. Read…

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MA: CityStage eyes credit card breach

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Dissent

Jack Flynn reports: A security breach involving CityStage’s computer system might have exposed credit card information of 60 customers on the Internet, theater officials acknowledged Tuesday. Cynthia J. Anzalotti, president of the Springfield Performing Arts Development Corp., which oversees CityStage, said the breach was limited to customers purchasing holiday gift cards, and not patrons buying…

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NC: Probe of UNCG security breach finds fewer people put at risk

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Dissent

Ryan Seals reports: A computer breach discovered at UNCG in December didn’t effect as many students and employees as once thought, officials said Wednesday. An investigation of the breach, which was caused by a computer virus, revealed that a possible 275 people may have been impacted from the data loss. The breach was traced to…

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NC: SECU probes fraud cases after security breach

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Dissent

Renee Chou reports: Officials with the State Employees Credit Union are investigating 40 cases of fraud in the wake of a security breach at a company that processes credit card payments nationwide. […] SECU receives card transactions through Visa, which receives the transactions from Heartland. The credit union has issued new credit cards and personal…

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PA: Identity Theft

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Dissent

A Cambria County man is behind bars after stealing credit card information from customers. 28-year old Charwan Wood worked as an employee at Inter-Media Market in Johnstown. Read more on WeAreCentralPA.com

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Third US gov’t worker pleads to passport snooping

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Dissent

Grant Gross reports: A third U.S. State Department employee has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing dozens of confidential passport application files, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Gerald Lueders, 65, of Woodbridge, Virginia, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a one-count criminal information charging him with unauthorized computer…

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