Information security analytics

Sensitive account details for almost 5,000 credit union customers have mistakenly appeared online. In a major blunder, the borrowing amounts, loan durations and arrears of 4,971 members of Tullamore Credit Union were made public. The private database became freely available via the lender's website last week and remained accessible for at least two days, it is understood. FILES

Major League Baseball, in its zeal to nail A-Rod and other accused juicers, paid thousands for stolen medical records. Not that we don’t relish the prospect of overpaid jocks getting their comeuppance, but there’s a small problem with trafficking in stolen property. It’s stolen. Florida law’s not fuzzy about the legality of "dealing in stolen property." A state statute puts it bluntly. "Any person who traffics in, or endeavors to traffic in, property that he or she knows or should know was stolen shall be guilty of a felony of the second degree."

A 10-MEMBER gang were caught in Beijing and Shanghai for illegally obtaining and selling personal information, with local police saying it had seized data belonging to nearly 1 million people. The gang made over 320,000 yuan (US$52,704) from the illegal dealings. In mid-August this year, a woman filed a complaint claiming her personal information was leaked after she applied online for an exam and soon started getting spam messages relating to training classes of the same subject as the exam, prompting Zhabei District police to investigate online message platforms.

Two now-former Department of Health employees have admitted in federal court that they illegally took private information on hundreds of patients, which was then used in a tax-return scheme. The discovery and arrests of Shanterica Smith and Gerald Williams prompted the health department to send security-breach notices to roughly 2,000 patients in October. Smith and Williams each pleaded guilty this month to a federal fraud charge, admitting they took names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of health department patients.

Richard Forrest has been fined £10,000 for obtaining information from West Ham officials during the bidding process for the Olympic Stadium A CRAWLEY man who illegally obtained personal information from West Ham officials during the bidding process for the Olympic Stadium has been fined thousands of pounds. Richard Forrest, from Furzefield, in West Green, was fined £10,000 at Southwark Crown Court today (December 20).

Following up on a previously noted breach, the employee in question has been charged. Note the key sentence that I’ve emphasized below in this report from NewsChannel5: A former employee of the Tennessee Department of Treasury has been charged with identity theft trafficking in connection with the alleged theft of personal information belonging to some 6,000 state and Metro employees.

BROOKINGS, SD - A former South Dakota State University secretary has been arrested after she opened up credit card accounts under a co-worker's name. According to court documents, 38-year-old Kari Lynn Fuks was arrested on the SDSU campus on December 5, charged with three felony counts of identity theft and two felony counts of grand theft. Fuks allegedly opened up three credit cards between March and September of this year under the name of a fellow secretary in the SDSU Chemistry department.

Nearly 19,000 Colorado state workers—both current and former—could have identity protection concerns after a state worker lost a USB or thumb drive containing their personal data including Social Security Numbers (SSN). «A state employee lost the drive while transporting it between work locations. There is no indication that this information has been misused or stolen», a press release from the Governor’s Office of Information Techology (OIT) stated

Matt Chorley reports: The personal details of 1,600 illegal immigrants have been published in online in a Home Office blunder. The names, dates of birth and immigration status of 1,598 immigrants involved with the family returns process were revealed on the government’s website. In a written statement to Parliament, immigration minister Mark Harper said measures have been put in place to prevent the error from happening again.

 Information on customers of two major foreign banks in South Korea has been leaked, sources said Wednesday, spawning concerns about an online security breach. Personal data of some 130,000 customers of Standard Chartered Bank Korea and Citi Bank Korea leaked from branches in the southern city of Changwon, according to the sources. Bank officials related to the incident were taken into custody to be interrogated, they said. Representatives at the banks said they are in the process of confirming the details.