A restaurant in Richmond, Indiana seems to have fallen for a ruse that has resulted in fraudulent charges on their customers’ credit and debit cards. Robert Sullivan reports: A local restaurant and several of its customers have been victimized by a credit card fraud scam, Richmond Police Department officials said. Fifteen individuals who ate at…
Month: April 2011
Privacy and use of newborns’ blood samples
Over on Privacy Lives, Melissa Ngo blogs about an issue I’ve discussed a number of times on this blog: the collection, storage, and use/misuse of newborns’ blood samples. Melissa points us to a discussion on Minnesota Public Radio: … On Tuesday, parents, doctors and researchers urged state lawmakers to reject proposed restrictions on Minnesota’s Newborn Screening…
Hundreds of College and Government websites still redirecting to fake stores
In January, I talked about high-profile websites, which had been hacked to redirect users to fake online stores. One unique aspect of the hack was the fact that the attackers had set up additional web servers on non-standard ports. Most of the domains I listed in the post were cleaned up pretty quickly. Three months…
Ie: NUI Galway security breach notice
From NUI Galway’s web site: This notice is related to a text which was sent by the University this week. If you received the text please read the message below as it explains the incident. On March 30 th2011 the University was advised that a file containing student id number, name, NUI Galway email address…
HHS reveals four more breaches
None of the following incidents appear to be reported on entities’ web sites or in the media sources I check, so here is how HHS reports them on their breach tool and I will try to find out more about them: JEFFREY J. SMITH, MD,OK,,600,11/24/2010,Loss ,Desktop Computer/Other Portable Electronic Device,, Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital,TX,,…
SSA exposed SSNs, names, birth dates for 36,000 people, IG says
From the are-you-absolutely-sure-you’re-not-dead dept. Alice Lipowicz reports: The Social Security Administration publicly made available the names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information on more than 36,000 people from May 2007 to April 2010 despite being warned about the privacy risks, according to a report from SSA’s Office of the Inspector General….