Tuesday, August 27, 2013



  
Complete DHS Daily Report for August 27, 2013

Daily Report

Top Stories

 • Police arrested a suspect believed to be the “Central Coast Bandit” responsible for six bank robberies after the suspect fled from a bank, was chased by police, and crashed her car in Paso Robles, California. – Monterey Herald See item 4 below in the Banking and Finance Sector

 • Advocate Medical Group notified nearly 4 million patients that they may be at risk after 4 computers containing personal information were stolen from an administrative building in Park Ridge, Illinois. – Chicago Tribune

24. August 24, Chicago Tribune – (Illinois) Personal data for 4 million patients at risk after burglary. Advocate Medical Group notified nearly 4 million patients that they may be at risk after 4 computers were stolen July 15 from an administrative building in Park Ridge, Illinois. The information included names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth of patients seen from the early 1990s through July 2013. Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0824-advocate-20130824,0,1314049.story

 • Firefighters reached 7 percent containment of the 134,000-acre Rim Fire burning near California’s Yosemite National Park. – Los Angeles Times

25. August 26, Los Angeles Times – (California) Rim fire: Thousands of homes threatened as blaze rages on. Firefighters reached 7 percent containment August 25 of the 134,000-acre Rim Fire burning near Yosemite National Park. Nine structures were destroyed and thousands more threatened as authorities expanded their voluntary evacuation orders. Source: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-yosemite-homes-threatened-20130826,0,6273027.story

 • Two men were charged with switching universal product codes on products at Home Depot stores across the country, potentially defrauding the chain of $1.3 million. – Associated Press

40. August 23, Associated Press – (National) Pair charged with wire, mail fraud in buying scheme, allegedly hit stores in 20 states. Two men were charged with switching universal product codes on products at Home Depot stores, potentially defrauding the chain of $1.3 million between November 2007 and August 2011. The men sold the products online for a profit and committed the crimes in at least 20 States. Source: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/e8420aa20c0a4f6fb485d7585c362962/KY--Purchasing-Fraud-Charges

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Banking and Finance Sector

4. August 23, Monterey Herald – (California) Suspected ‘Central Coast Bandit’ in FBI custody after crash, police say. Police arrested a suspect believed to be the “Central Coast Bandit” responsible for six bank robberies after the suspect fled from a bank, was chased by police, and crashed her car in Paso Robles August 23. Source: http://www.montereyherald.com/localnews/ci_23932106/suspected-central-coast-bandit-fbi-custody-after-crash

5. August 23, Orlando Sentinel – (Florida) Brokerage executive pleads guilty to fraud, agrees to forfeit $4 million. An Orlando currency trading executive pleaded guilty August 23 to running an investment scheme through Altamont Global Partners LLC that defrauded investors of $16 million. Source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-altamont-global-guility-plea-20130823,0,2592832.story

6. August 23, Associated Press – (Pennsylvania) Cyber school founder charged with skimming $8 million. The founder and former CEO of The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School was charged with allegedly siphoning more than $8 million from the school by using straw owners and various companies, and then conspiring with his accountant to avoid income taxes. Source: http://www.heraldstaronline.com/page/content.detail/id/589614/Cyber-school-founder-Trombetta-charged-with-skimming--8-million.html?nav=5010

7. August 23, Sacramento Business Journal – (California) Sacramento man pleads guilty to mail fraud, money laundering. A Sacramento man pleaded guilty August 23 to fraud and money laundering charges for using others’ identities to obtain credit cards and student loans, attempting to obtain more than $450,000 in fraudulent merchant returns and $450,000 in fraudulent student loans. Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2013/08/23/sacramento-man-altit-debit-card-fraud.html

8. August 23, CSO – (National) Software piracy discovered at the IRS. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found in an audit that the Internal Revenue Service was not adequately managing software licenses, either deploying software above the amount of licenses purchased or buying more licenses for other software than were deployed. Source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/082313-software-piracy-discovered-at-the-273147.html

For another story, see item 40 above in Top Stories

Information Technology Sector

36. August 26, IDG News Service – (International) Amazon cloud packet woes wobble Airbnb, Vine. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) experienced packet loss issues for about an hour August 25, causing issues for several Web sites that reply on the platform, including Vine and Airbnb. Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241894/Amazon_cloud_packet_woes_wobble_Airbnb_Vine

37. August 26, Threatpost – (International) Pinterest closes hole that allowed anyone to view users’ email addresses. A security researcher found and reported a vulnerability in Pinterest that could allow an attacker to easily discover a user’s email address. Pinterest responded to the researcher and closed the vulnerability. Source: http://threatpost.com/pinterest-closes-hole-that-allowed-anyone-to-view-users-email-addresses

Communications Sector

Nothing to report