A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment charging Lea’Tice Phillips for conspiring to file false tax returns using stolen identities, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. The 37 count indictment charges Phillips with conspiracy to file false claims, wire fraud, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to…
Month: January 2013
PostNet Hacked, 11,099 Credentials Leaked for #ProjectSunRise
A well known South African photocopying and publishing company PostNet has become a victim to hacking and data leaks after @TeamGhostShell Released its latest Project leak The leak is one of the larger ones out of the total 23 sites that got breached and it a appears the complete database of the website has been leaked including its blogs,…
700,000 Accounts leaked for Project Sun Rise – Heart of Africa
Its that time again, @TeamGhostShell has released another huge dump of information from over 20 different south African and African based websites. The leak is in the name of Project Sun Rise – Heart of Africa and appears to target a lot of petroleum and mining company’s and was announced on twitter last night. > #ProjectSunRise – Africa’s heart: pastebin.com/8fJbajpc 700.000 accounts/records leaked….
Antioch district working to fix inadvertent disclosure of employee data
Paul Burgarino reports: District officials have been working to fix an inadvertent disclosure of some personal employee information that spread last week via email. While a former Antioch Unified employee was trying to pass on information about a replacement’s responsibilities at the end of the workday Jan. 18, the employee attached a file to an…
New HIPAA Requirements for Business Associates and Their Subcontractors
Helpful write-up by Dena Feldman on the final HITECH rule as it applies to business associates and subcontractors includes: Direct Liability under the Security Rule. The final rule alters the regulations to expressly subject business associates to the administrative, physical, and technical safeguard requirements of the Security Rule. HHS commented that, because business associates previously had…
10 Questions to Ask Your Child’s School District on Data Privacy Day 2013
The following is cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org: For Data Privacy Day 2013 on January 28, I’ve tried to compile a list of questions parents should ask their child’s school district about how their child’s personal information is protected. Send your letter to your district’s Superintendent with a cc: to your district’s Board of Education: Dear ________:…