Nicole Orgrysko reports: Victims of the Office of Personnel Management’s cyber breach who enrolled in credit monitoring services with Winvale/CSID about 18 months ago will soon have to re-enroll for the same services with a new vendor. OPM will soon mail notification letters to roughly 600,000 people, whose coverage under Winvale expires Dec. 1, 2016, a…
NH: Hancock town clerk arrested for sharing private information
Cassidy Swanson reports: The town clerk for Hancock has been arrested for sharing a resident’s personal information, according to the attorney general’s office. Joan Joseph was arrested and charged with one count of violating RSA 260:14, the Driver Privacy Act. The act establishes that records from the Division of Motor Vehicles are confidential. According to…
Popular Texas restaurant under fire after dumpster discovery
Alex Achten reports: It was a startling surprise for neighbors who found papers containing social security numbers, bank accounts, and other personal information blowing across their yards over the weekend. We did some digging, and found out the papers came from inside a dumpster at a popular nearby restaurant. Frances Roberts lives across the street…
NHS Trust cancels EVERY operation at three hospitals after its electronic system was hit by a computer virus attack
Abe Hawken reports on what sounds like it might be a ransomware situation (update: nope, it is not): All operations have been cancelled at three hospitals run by the same NHS Trust after a virus attack compromised their computer system. The system, which is run by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust, had to be shut…
Two Indicted for Conspiracy, Wire Fraud, and Aggravated Identity Theft
WILMINGTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that a federal grand jury in Wilmington, North Carolina returned a five-count indictment charging JONES TYLER MARTIN and HAILEY TYKOSKI with conspiring to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and aiding and abetting. The Indictment alleges that that from approximately 2013 to May,…
Man Charged In Scheme To Steal More Than $1.5 Million From A U.S. Financial Institution
On October 27, a complaint was unsealed charging Dwayne C. Hans, a United States citizen, with wire fraud, computer fraud, and money laundering. According to the complaint, between April 2016 and July 2016, the defendant masterminded a series of frauds against a U.S. financial institution in which he masqueraded as an authorized representative of that…