Scott Koller explains: The state of New Hampshire recently enacted House Bill 322 (“HB 322”), which requires the Department of Education (“DOE”) to implement additional procedures to protect student and teacher data from security breaches. Those procedures now include a breach notification requirement. Effective August 11, 2015, the DOE must develop a detailed security plan…
Month: July 2015
MO: Multiple credit cards involved in health center stealing
Lake Sun reports: Multiple credit cards were apparently used by the employee arrested in the theft of more than $140,000 from the Morgan County Health Center along with the identity theft of a former employee. Melissa D. Owsley, 38, was arrested and charged last week with one count of identity theft resulting in the theft…
Housing.com hacked, former CEO Rahul Yadav says he didn’t do it
Nandagopal Rajan reports: So, the first Monday after its founder Rahul Yadav was sacked by the board, the Housing.com website is on a see-saw ride that seems to have no end. The site was down for a while and then came back up only to go down again. Our suspicion is that this is going…
GhostShell Returns with a New Hacking Concept – Dark Hacktivism
Ionut Ilascu writes: Breaking into the systems of an organization and accessing files without authorization is regarded as trespassing. The motivation behind this act can be anything from financial gain to proving one’s skills among fellow hackers. No matter the reasons, the success of such an action is most of the times due to lack…
AU: Defense medical records sent to China in security breach
David Wroe reports: Eye test records and personal contact details of hundreds of military personnel including soldiers posted overseas were sent to China in a significant data security breach, Fairfax Media has learnt. The records, which included in many cases mobile phone numbers of personnel, were sent to a processing facility in China’s Guangdong province…
Drug addicts sent from Puerto Rico may be victims of ID theft in Chicago
Odette Yousef reports: After we aired a story about Puerto Rican drug addicts who were sent to unlicensed 24-hour group treatment programs in Chicago, we heard from lots of listeners. They were disturbed by one particular detail in reporter Adriana Cardona-Maguigad’s investigation: that the groups routinely confiscate addicts’ identifying documents, and sometimes don’t return them. In fact,…