Since December 2009, when two laptops were stolen from AvMed’s office in Gainesville, Florida, the case has been pursued by some of the 1.2 million insured whose personal and health information were on the laptops. In November 2010, five of them filed a potential class action lawsuit, Although AvMed claimed in November 2010 that there was…
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Update: Alleged EPISD computer hacker expected to plead guilty
Adriana M. Chavez reports: A 20-year-old Mississippi man accused of hacking into the El Paso Independent School District’s computer system last year is scheduled to plead guilty later this month. Court records show Kaleb Harper Ketchens will plead guilty at 10 a.m. Sept. 19 before Senior U.S. District Judge David Briones. Read more on El Paso Times. As…
Four Twin Cities men convicted in ID theft ring
Dan Browning reports: Jurors in St. Paul returned guilty verdicts Thursday against four participants in a wide-ranging identity fraud ring based in the Twin Cities that bilked about $2 million from banks and retailers across 14 states. The defendants were among 28 people charged in the conspiracy; their co-defendants have all pleaded guilty. Read more…
Data Breach at Boston Water and Sewer Commission
Iran Kantor reports: The Boston Water and Sewer Commission has been informed that a contractor working to upgrade the Commission’s meter reading software is unable to locate a hard drive that may have contained the commission’s water and sewer account information, according to a letter sent out to residents earlier this month. The missing drive…
Sony says 400 customer names, emails from mobile division leaked in China
Jay Alabaster reports: Sony said Thursday that hackers accessed about 400 names and email addresses of its mobile customers in China and Taiwan, but that no credit card or banking information was compromised. The company said it became aware of the hack several days after a message was posted on the popular text-sharing website Pastebin by a…
Health ministry suspends workers over privacy breach
Jonathan Fowlie reports: Seven employees have been suspended without pay from the B.C. Ministry of Health over allegations of inappropriate access to medical information, The Vancouver Sun has learned. The employees in question worked in the area of research and evidence development, which awards drug research contracts on behalf of the ministry. Government has also…