Vivian Yeo reports: Despite greater awareness among businesses in Asia on the need to protect data assets, security breaches seem to be on the increase across the region over the past year. Claudio Scarabello, Verizon Business’ senior global product manager for security product marketing, said in an e-mail interview that data breach incidents appeared “to…
44 million stolen gaming credentials found in online warehouse
Ellen Messmer reports: Symantec says it has unearthed a server hosting the credentials of 44 million stolen gaming accounts — and one of the most surprising aspects of it is that the accounts were being validated by a Trojan distributed to compromised computers. The purpose of this Trojan-based validation is apparently to figure which credentials…
PA: 2 Get Prison for Stealing ID’s of DUI Offenders
As a follow-up to a case previously reported here, Myles Snyder reports: Two Lancaster men will spend less than two years in prison for using the identities of drunken driving offenders in a identity theft scheme. John B. Spencer III, 29, was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 21 months imprisonment followed by three years…
Jp: 2 held over fraud using computer virus
Two men were arrested on suspicion of using a computer virus to steal personal information and leak it onto the Internet and then defrauding people of money by offering to resecure the data. This is the first arrest in the nation in a case of fraud using a computer virus, and it is only the…
Stupid is as stupid does: the Lake Ridge Middle School breach
As a follow-up to previous coverage about the stolen Lake Ridge Middle School stolen thumb drive here and here, Andrea McCarren of WUSA-9 provides some additional details that have infuriated parents (emphasis added by me): The device was taken from a bag in an administrator’s unlocked car in her unlocked garage. ….. On the stolen…
Tulsa woman pleads guilty in identity theft case
David Harper reports the follow-up to a case previously covered here last month: A Tulsa woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in a conspiracy in which personal identifying information was taken from St. Francis Hospital’s computer system and used as part of a scheme involving fraudulent credit cards and stolen mail. Teresa R. Browning, 36,…