Corey Thompson was sentenced yesterday to serve 30 months in prison for his involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud conspiracy, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. In July 2012, Thompson pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to file false claims and to one count of aggravated identity theft….
PA: Malware program found in senior-living center's computer (updated)
From WGAL: Thousands of current and former senior-living residents’ personal information could be in jeopardy after a hacker’s malware program was found on their computer. Officials of Lutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania, which has four senior-citizen centers in York, say the malware was found Tuesday and they contacted everyone who could be involved….
Tomren Wealth Management notifies clients of server compromise; access to client data uncertain
Tomren Wealth Management sent out notification letters recent following a server breach that occurred between February 21 and March 6, when the intrusion was discovered. “The forensic examiners found spamming software was loaded onto the machine in a failed attempt to send out ‘junk” spam emails, however, we have been unable to determine whether the…
Former corrections officer admits stealing South Florida inmate IDs
Here’s a follow-up to an insider breach previously reported on this blog. Paula McMahon reports: A former state corrections officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing hundreds of prison inmates’ identities. Bernard Beliard, 27, who was most recently assigned to the South Florida Reception Center in Doral, pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated identity theft and access…
Honolulu Police Department confirms hack exposed some members of the public’s personal information
Mileka Lincoln of HawaiiNewsNow reports: HPD has confirmed one of their databases containing information about the public has been hacked. Officials say anyone who has ever signed up for an “HPD alert” using their email address or phone number has been exposed. They say this includes more than 3,500 entries listing individual’s full names. The…
SC:Personal data from 12,000 York Tech applicants may have been exposed
Don Worthington reports: The names, Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers of more than 12,000 online student applicants at York Technical College might have been exposed, school officials said Tuesday. And it was one of the applicants who discovered the problem and brought it to the college’s attention. […] York Tech President Greg Rutherford…