Computer criminals could wind up costing Danish banks billions if a law requiring them to compensate small businesses on an equal footing with private account holders is passed. The Commerce Ministry has asked the Financial Supervisory Authority to look into whether companies with less than 10 employees and annual turnover of less than 15 million…
Second city man arrested in ID fraud
In an update to a story previously reported here, Larry Alexander reports: A second Lancaster County man has been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice in an identity-theft scheme that targeted DUI offenders in Lancaster and York counties. John B. Spencer III, 30, of Lancaster, is the second man charged with conspiracy to commit…
File Cabinet Purchase Leads To Identity Theft Concerns
Some former and current Panola School District, Oklahoma employees are learning that some of their employment records from 1998 and 1999, including W-2’s, were in file cabinets sold to the public. Now the people who bought the cabinets are declining to turn the records over to the school district without a court order and are…
Jail chaos as lag hacker is left in charge of computer system
Justin Penrose reports: A jailed hacker shut down a prison’s entire computer system – after bosses gave him the job of programming it. Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to £6.5million using forged credit cards over the internet, was approached after governors wanted to create an internal TV station but needed a…
FBI: Virus suspected in school thefts
Brett Rowland and Kate Schott report: As much as $350,000 reported stolen from Crystal Lake District 47 bank accounts earlier this summer could be linked to cyberthefts at other suburban schools. The FBI’s Chicago office is investigating the cases, at least one of which involves a hard-to-detect computer virus. No arrests have been made or…
UK: Care trust reveals theft of patients' data
The personal data of patients from South Devon is in the hands of thieves after a laptop belonging to Torbay Care Trust was stolen, it has been revealed. The incident is just one of 30 occasions when personal data was lost or stolen collectively by Devon NHS staff in the last two years. The laptop…