Karen Ann Cullotta reports: The apparent identity thefts of more than 40 former and current New Trier High School employees have prompted the school district to ask local and state law enforcement authorities for help with the investigation, New Trier officials confirmed this week. […] New Trier officials said they were alerted in March to…
Star Advertiser credit card breach could impact hundreds, if not thousands, of customers
Hawaii Reporter reports: Tori Samiere, who was arraigned in First Circuit Court on Monday, June 9, on four counts of theft, pleaded not guilty to the charges. Samiere, 54, is accused of conspiring with Sadie Jane Groy, 30, to steal the credit card numbers of several clients of Hawaii’s largest daily paper, the Honolulu Star Advertiser. Groy…
Update: Paytime breach may affect 233,000
WITF reports that the Paytime breach affected even more than previously disclosed: Cumberland County-based Paytime says as many as 233,000 people may be affected by a data breach. The payroll processor distributed about 88,000 W-2’s in 2012, but says in a filing with the North Carolina Attorney General that dependents and spouses information may have also been…
Man charged with stealing identities of clients of his drug-testing business
Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced charges against a Chicago area man for stealing the identities of hundreds of Chicago area people and using their personal information to set up cable television accounts for other people. Roy Burks, 37, of Richton Park, appeared earlier today in Cook County Criminal Court to formally face charges of…
Credit Card Breach at P.F. Chang’s – Banks
Brian Krebs reports: Nationwide chain P.F. Chang’s China Bistro said today that it is investigating claims of a data breach involving credit and debit card data reportedly stolen from restaurant locations nationwide. On June 9, thousands of newly-stolen credit and debit cards went up for sale on rescator[dot]so, an underground store best known for selling tens of millions of…
College of the Desert notifies employees of e-mail breach
College of the Desert in Palm Desert, California recently notified employees that an employee sent an e-mail with an attached spreadsheet with employee information to 78 college employees. The spreadsheet contained employees’ name, Social Security number, date of birth, gender, zip code, job title, employee identification number, health insurance benefit plan selection, health insurance subscriber identification…