It’s not just Stanford University employees who are reporting problems involving their W-2 data being accessed improperly from W2-Express, a service of Equifax. Kroger is also notifying employees. The Inquisitr reports: Grocery giant Kroger sent an email to current and former employees today indicating that their Social Security numbers and dates of birth may be compromised. The…
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Two men charged in Belarus over Penneco Oil theft
AP reports that two men have been charged by authorities in Belarus with receiving $1.35 million stolen from the bank account of Penneco Oil Co. in 2012 in a phishing scheme involving Bugat malware. I expect we’ll see a DOJ release on this later today or tomorrow, and I’ll update this post when it’s available.
Employees at Saint Agnes Medical Center dealing with possibility of identity theft
KFSN reports: Thousands of employees at Saint Agnes Medical Center are dealing with the possibility of identity theft after a security breach. Scammers got the W-2’s of everyone employed by the hospital this week. The breach affected 2,800 employees. Read more on ABC.
Probationary employee at CDOT misused employee info
Kieran Nicholson reports: State investigators are looking into a database breach at the Colorado Department of Transportation which could lead to identity thefts. The breach of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program with CDOT was discovered recently and has been reported to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said Amy Ford, a CDOT spokeswoman. […] “A probationary…
IL: Abingdon-Avon School Board addresses alleged data breach
Tom Loewy reports: So many people attended Wednesday’s special meeting of the Abingdon-Avon District 276 School Board it had to be moved from the superintendent’s conference room to Hedding Grade School’s cafeteria. While roughly 150 visitors were on hand for the start of the 6 p.m. meeting, just 25 stayed through the five-hour executive session…
Romanian hacker Guccifer: I breached Clinton server, ‘it was easy’
Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne report on a jail-house interview with Marcel Lehel Lazar, aka, “Guccifer,” about how he hacked then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email server. You read their story on Fox News. If he’s telling the truth, there was nothing very sophisticated about his approach.