There’s an important update in the case that involved Court Ventures/U.S. Info/Experian, and Dun & Bradstreet, although the government doesn’t name the businesses in its press release. James Eng reports: A Vietnamese national was sentenced to 13 years in prison for hacking into U.S. businesses’ computers, stealing personally identifiably information (PII), and selling to other cybercriminals his fraudulently-obtained…
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Unhappy Third Birthday to My Experian Complaint?
Three years ago today, I filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission about Experian’s data breaches. Back then, I knew about 60 breaches of their credit reporting database due to client login credentials being misused. There were also other breaches of their database involving people being able to authenticate as others to obtain credit reports,…
Oregon investigating complaints about the Archdiocese of Portland’s handling of ID theft
Brent Hunsberger reports: Oregon regulators are investigating whether the Archdiocese of Portland violated state law by failing to properly notify employees and volunteers that they could be victims of tax-return fraud. The Oregon Division of Finance and Corporate Securities has received two complaints from consumers about the Archdiocese, which oversees schools and parishes serving 418,000 Catholics in…
Massachusetts AG Coakley Investigates Potential Data Breach Involving Major Credit Reporting Company; Issues Consumer Advisory
Press release from Massachusetts Attorney General Coakley: Following reports that criminals were able to gain access to a commercial database that contained the personal information, including social security numbers, of more than 200 million U.S. citizens, Attorney General Martha Coakley, along with attorneys general across the country, have opened an investigation into the data broker…
Pointing fingers, Thursday edition – U.S. Info Search tells its side
On April 8, this blog published a post concerning the Court Ventures breach that questioned whether Experian was getting a bad rap for a breach that started with Court Ventures and its reciprocal data sharing agreement with U.S. Info Search. Unbeknownst to DataBreaches.net at the time, U.S. Info Search had issued a press release the…
Iowa, North Carolina join states studying Experian breach – Reuters
Jim Finkle and Karen Freifeld of Reuters also have more on the Court Ventures/U.S. Info Search that has put millions of consumers at risk of identity theft or financial fraud: Iowa and North Carolina said they are looking into a breach involving a subsidiary of Experian Plc that exposed some 200 million social security numbers,…