Bae Ji-sook reports: Police on Sunday arrested two hackers for stealing and selling on the personal information of 8.7 million KT users. Investigators said they would also investigate KT on suspicion of negligent management of firewalls and personal data as the number of victims accounts for nearly half of its subscribers. According to the National…
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If at first you don’t succeed: Senator Leahy offers breach notification amendments to cybersecurity bill
Brendan Sasso reports: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is pushing for an amendment to a cybersecurity bill that would make it a crime for a company to hide a data breach from its customers. Under the legislation, anyone who purposefully conceals a data breach that causes financial damage could face up to five years in prison….
Ca: Pension data of former city workers stolen
CBC News reports: A stolen hard drive containing pension data for about 800 former City of Ottawa employees will likely never be retrieved, according to the company that was handling the information. New York-based Towers Watson notified the city of the breach after the hard drive disappeared from an office in the Philippines. Towers Watson…
Melbourne IT takes heat for Cold Fusion breach
James Hutchinson reports: Melbourne IT has admitted to hosting and operating both the Queensland Government and AAPT servers that suffered breaches this week at the hands of hackers purporting to be from a Anonymous splinter group. The group Ops Australia took credit for defacing nine Queensland Government websites related to tourism, science and economic development and stealing…
CA: ID theft suspects busted in credit card-skimming case
From News10: It continues to happen. Three individuals were arrested Thursday on suspicion of identity theft and burglary after a month-long investigation in which detectives with the Sacramento County sheriff’s hi tech crimes unit uncovered credit/debit card skimming devices, thousands of credit card numbers, hundreds of bogus California identification cards and numerous counterfeit credit cards….
Northwestern Memorial Hospital notifies hospice patients after laptops with personal and medical info stolen from office (updated)
Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Home Hospice in Chicago is notifying patients of a breach involving their unencrypted personal and medical information. Here is their press release, posted to their site on July 25: Statement Regarding Hospice Burglary and Patient Health Information Breach On the evening of June 11, 2012, Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Home Hospice offices at…