Paige Hill reports that the Payne County assessor’s office noticed a dumpster full of documents and files with personal information including social security numbers – but before anything could be done, a dump truck hauled all the papers away. County Assessor James Cowan says he noticed documents that date from the 1980′s to 2008. Read more on…
Month: July 2014
Board OKs pact to protect U. Maryland security breach victims
Michael Dresser reports: The state Board of Public Works approved a contract worth an estimated $2.6 million Wednesday for a firm to monitor the credit activity of an estimated 300,000 people whose personal information was exposed as a result of a computer security breach discovered at the University of Maryland early this year. The board…
Thursday: House Oversight Committee hearing on FTC
The Federal Trade commission and Its Section 5 Authority: Prosecutor, Judge, and Jury Full Committee July 24, 2014 | 9:30 a.m. in Rayburn 2154 Witnesses: Mr. Michael Daugherty Chief Executive Officer LabMD, Inc. Mr. David Roesler Executive Director Open Door Clinic of Greater Elgin Mr. Gerard Stegmaier Partner Goodwin Procter Mr. Woodrow Hartzog Associate Professor…
Massage school data breach may rub alumni the wrong way
Six hundred and eighty-three Maryland residents who are alumni of the Baltimore School of Massage (BSOM) and Baltimore School of Massage’s Steiner Institute of Esthetics are being offered three years of free credit monitoring, identity protection, and identity theft restoration services following on email error that exposed their information. On June 17, an employee accidentally…
Specialized Eye Care notifies patients after unscrupulous employee copied and misused payment information
Here’s one that likely won’t show up on HHS’s public breach tool because of the numbers involved, but it’s an insider breach. Specialized Eye Care in Baltimore discovered that one of its employees stole the checking account information (name, address, routing and account number) of approximately 28 patients and the credit card information of approximately…
Indexeus exposes malicious hackers
The search engine indexes those websites which are frequented by the hackers. Indexeus users can query millions of records from some of the larger data breaches, including Adobe and Yahoo. The results list information including email addresses, usernames, passwords, Internet address, physical address, birthdays and other information associated with the accounts. The site said that…