On November 13, media reported that about 300 people in Lake Saint Louis, Missouri had become victims of credit card fraud. The next day, media reported that the source of the stolen data may have been an ATM skimmer. And on November 22, media reported that two suspects had been apprehended in Omaha on November…
Vegas Tripping hacked, 4,000 Accounts leaked
A hacker using the handle @zVapor has just announced a leak from Vegastripping.com. The announcement was made over twitter and the leak has been posted to pastebin.com. The website is a guide site to the hotels and casinos within Vegas and more so the famous Vegas strip. The leaked data contains all administrator account credentials…
Retired cop, accused of stealing documents, reaches deal to give info back to Parsippany
There’s probably some lessons to be learned from this one… Justin Zaremba reports: A retired Parsippany police captain and the township have agreed to meet with a court-appointed computer forensic expert to facilitate the return of nearly 960,000 police department documents that municipal officials allege were stolen and deleted from municipal servers by the captain….
TX: Laptop with Houston Methodist Hospital patient info stolen
Mike Glenn reports: Sensitive information for about 1,300 transplant patients is missing after a laptop and files were reported stolen, officials with Houston Methodist Hospital said Friday. The encrypted laptop and files were taken Thursday. They held personal information, including names, Social Security numbers and birth dates. Read more on The Houson Chronicle. KHOU also covers the incident.There is…
NZ: Bank’s embarrassing privacy breach
Rob Kidd reports: ANZ has been left red-faced over a major privacy breach after it inadvertently sent bank statements for customers’ accounts containing hundreds of thousands of dollars to a two-year old boy. The bank botch saw Whangarei toddler Joel Morrison sent a pile of other people’s account statements, all of which contained considerably more…
Breach at Maricopa Community Colleges may cost $14 million
Mary Beth Faller reports: A massive data breach at Maricopa Community Colleges was a result of staff errors in the information technology department, and the estimated cost of fixing the problem and aiding victims could rise as high as $14 million. An official with the Maricopa County Community College District said an outside consultant had…