$1M reward offered to solve data theft crime

Express Scripts (Nasdaq:ESRX), one of the largest pharmacy benefit management companies in North America, announced today that a small number of its clients have received letters threatening to expose the personal information of its members. The threats are believed to be connected to an extortion threat the company made public last week.
The letters, which were [...]

“The Data Theft Scandal” TV Documentary

Dispatches - Television Documentary “The Data Theft Scandal”
Click on the above link to view the documentary, it highlights the simplicity of data theft and the disturbing acquisition and sale trends relating to personal data.  The documentary highlights staff from call centres in India and the UK intercepting credit card, bank account and personal details in [...]

The Washington Trust Co.

The Washington Trust Co. has notified about 1,000 customers that their debit and credit card accounts might have been compromised in a suspected security breach at an unidentified [...]

Florida man pleads guilty in retail data breach

A Florida man who was one of 11 people indicted in a massive retail data theft has plead guilty in federal court.
Twenty-five-year-old Christopher Scott of Miami pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy, unauthorized access to computer systems, access device fraud and identity theft.
Prosecutors said Scott was an expert at hacking wireless networks, and helped the group’s [...]

California hacker charged with data theft, extortion over Maserati breach

A resident of Solana Beach, Calif., has been charged with stealing customer data from luxury car seller Maserati North America Inc. and then trying to extort money from the company by threatening to publicly disclose the details of the system intrusion.
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State Farm Insurance

An employee of State Farm fraudulently used customer information to open credit-card accounts. Customers’ Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, addresses and possibly [...]

Forever21

If you shopped at the stores between November 26, 2003 and October 24, 2005, criminals may have stolen your credit and debit card numbers from its computers.
Approximately 20,500 [...]

Franklin Savings and Loan

An unauthorized person gained access to a database containing 20,500 personal accounts such as names, addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, account balances and Social [...]

Ohio Police & Fire Pension System

A former mailroom supervisor at the Ohio Police & Fire Pension System forwarded the names, addresses and Social Security numbers from his work e-mail address to his personal [...]

Wachovia Bank, Florida

It was confirmed that the Camelot branch, at Cape Coral Parkway and Chiquita Boulevard, has had several debit cards’ identities stolen because someone placed what’s [...]

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