Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced yesterday that a former business owner in Sparta, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in allowing his customers’ information to be stolen and used to promote a bank fraud scheme that used stolen mail and fake identifications to cash nearly…
UK: Probe after 1,000 tenants caught up in data security breach
Stuart Greer reports: A social landlord has admitted a data security breach where private information of almost 1,000 residents’ was released. A member of staff from the Customer Experience Team at Peaks and Plains Housing Trust accidentally sent a mass email to 994 residents on Wednesday morning, but failed to use the ‘blind carbon copy’…
CA: Berkeley High student linked to racist ‘screen hack’
Emilie Raguso and Lance Knobel report: Berkeley High School administrators say they have identified the student responsible for a “screen hack” in the library Wednesday that displayed racist threats against African Americans. Berkeley High Principal Sam Pasarow said, during a press conference Thursday afternoon, that a student, believed to have been acting alone, was responsible for the…
Talk Talk hack: Co Antrim schoolboy suing Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and The Sun for alleged breach of privacy
Remember when I expressed surprise on Twitter that The Telegraph, a UK publication, actually named this kid? Within hours, the publication silently deleted it, but there’s been so much reported online and on Twitter that his identity is pretty much out there already. Alan Erwin reports: A Co Antrim schoolboy arrested over the cyber attack on TalkTalk…
UK: Popular postcard app Touchnote suffers data breach
Dan Thorp-Lancaster reports: The team behind Touchnote, a popular Android app for sending photos you’ve taken as postcards, has sent an email out to customers announcing that the service was hit by a data breach, resulting in customer information such as name and address being accessed. Read more on Android Central. From the FAQ on…
UK: Police watchdog to probe claims 2002 theft of Special Branch personnel info at Castlereagh police station involved inside help
On March 17, 2002, there was a break-in and burglary at Castlereagh police station. The records that were stolen put lives at risk, as the stolen data included a list of officers in the Special Branch intelligence unit with contact details, and the code names of paramilitary agents and their handlers. Dozens of officers subsequently had to move…