Meaghan M. McDermott reports: Personal information including Social Security numbers of about 450 current and former University of Rochester students was stolen by hackers this week from a UR database. According to the university, the information was taken from a non-academic student database and copied illegally to an off-campus IP address. The breach was discovered…
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MD: Medical worker sentenced to prison in identity theft scheme
U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Christel Ebony Norwood, age 32, of Ft. Washington, Maryland today to 30 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. Judge Chasanow also ordered Norwood to pay…
UT: Local credit card numbers stolen
Matthew K. Jensen reports on a case where arrests have been made but there is still no explanation of how the thieves obtained the credit card data: Two men are in custody and under investigation by the FBI in an identity theft scheme that victimized 2,500 Cache County residents, Smithfield police officials said Wednesday. In…
Comments on Senator Feinstein’s bill, S. 139
Earlier this week, Senator Feinstein grabbed the privacy headlines when she reintroduced the same breach notification bill that she has introduced in every session of Congress for the past few years. Like me, the bill has not improved with age. S.139 is intended to provide a national “floor” on data breach notifications for breaches involving…
Mysterious credit card charge may have hit millions of users
Mitch Lipka reports: Several Internet complaint boards are filled with comments from credit card customers from coast to coast who have noticed a mysterious charge for about 25 cents on their statements. The charge shows up on statements as coming from “Adele Services” in Melville, N.Y. There is no business by that name listed in…
GA: Personal Documents Found Stashed Behind Coweta Co. Store
More than a week after a Circuit City store closed its doors, employees found personal documents stashed behind the building. Investigators were trying to determine if anyone else saw the customers’ information. The accompanying video indicates that there were “boxes and boxes” of service contract papers that contained customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, type of…