From BWOG, Columbia University’s undergraduate magazine: Three laptops containing the personal information of 1,400 Columbia affiliates were stolen Monday from university offices, administration sources tell Bwog. Though details of the thefts are not yet being released, university officials confirm that Social Security numbers are among the sensitive data contained on the laptops. The computers were…
VA: Gift Card Re-encoder sentenced to 13 years
Jerry A. Diggs, 31, of Middletown, Delaware, was sentenced Wednesday to 132 months on a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, a consecutive 24 months on a charge of aggravated identity theft, followed by three years of supervised release and the requirement of restitution in the amount of $230,644.56 to over one hundred victims….
Telemarketers and Five Banks Are in Cahoots, Class Claims
Barbara Leonard reports: Five national banks helped “unscrupulous telemarketers” launder millions of dollars they swiped from consumers, a class action claims in Philadelphia Federal Court. The class sued three processing companies – NetDeposit, MP Technologies dba Modern Payments and Teledraft – and five banks: Zions First National Bank of Utah, Wells Fargo, Wachovia, National Penn…
The State of Computer Security in the UK
eSecurity Planet reports: British security consulting firm 7Safe and the University of Bedfordshire have released the UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010, which looks at the current state of computer security in the UK through an analysis of actual data breaches. Key findings include the fact that 69 percent of data compromises occurred in the…
Reported breaches decline in NYS in 2009
Yesterday, as part of Data Privacy Day, New York Governor David Paterson issued a proclamation that included some statistics on New York State: “More than 1.1 million records of New York State residents were impacted by over 400 data breaches in 2009, highlighting the need for vigilance among all entities that handle personal identifiable information…
77,000 Alaskans’ information missing; state settles with firm
Ted Land reports: Tens of thousands of Alaskans are trying to find out if their personal information is missing. Attorney General Dan Sullivan announced Thursday there’s been a massive security breach reaching the highest levels of state government. More than 77,000 Alaskans’ personal information is missing. No one knows where it went. […] On that…