There’s nothing much new in here if you’ve followed this stuff for years, but some folks still need a reminder and wake-up call not to tolerate this type of insider wrongdoing: U.S. police officers in Denver, Colorado are only lightly punished if caught using confidential criminal databases for personal reasons like finding out a woman’s…
Authorities: List contains information of Minnesota officers
AP reports: Authorities said Tuesday that they are investigating after a list containing the personal information of several Minnesota police officers was posted online. The existence of the list was first reported Monday by the news site Vocativ, which says its analysts discovered that the names, phone numbers and addresses of 36 officers had been…
14,000 LAZ Parking employees have W-2 data stolen
Phillip Molnar reports on yet another breach of employee W-2 data via phishing: The tax and revenue information for roughly 14,000 employees of the third-largest parking company in the nation, which operates in San Diego and Los Angeles, may have been stolen by an “unknown individual,” the company says. LAZ Parking said Tuesday that the…
Yet more phishing-based compromises involving W-2 tax statement data (Update-24)
(Note: the following is not a complete list… it’s just a list I started after the first few posts on this topic suggested that there would be a lot more. See the “phishing” category of this site for earlier entries this year.) Reports continue to come in to state attorneys general involving the successful spear phishing…
Website of Hinjewadi Industries Association hacked, Anti Terrorism Squad steps in
Express News Service reports: The website of the Hinjewadi Industries Association (HIA) was hacked on Tuesday morning. Confirming it, Anil Patwardhan, president of the HIA, said, “The association had disabled the website for the last week or so in view of the upgradation work. We got to know about the hacking Tuesday morning. We would…
New details revealed in Signal Mountain identity theft case
WTVC has an update on a case that I hadn’t gotten around to reporting on yet, so…. The Signal Mountain Police Department has revealed new details in the case of a nurse’s assistant charged with identity theft. A post on the department’s Facebook page says 20-year-old Marcus Nix is accused of stealing information for several elderly victims…