Zhan Jie reports: Four suspects have been detained for obtaining user information illegally from one of China’s largest e-commerce websites and stealing money from its user accounts, Xinhua News Agency reported today. More than 2,000 customers of 360buy.com fell victim to the information leak and lost more than 30,000 yuan (US$4,785) in total, Beijing prosecutors…
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TX: Former Capital One Bank employee pleads guilty in ID theft scheme
Jamal Gerard Mose-Burrel, 22, of Houston, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft last week. Mose-Burrel, who formerly worked for Capital One Bank, admitted that he used Capital One Bank systems to provide a co-conspirator identified only as “T.J.” with the personal information and bank account information of…
Secret patient recordings – are they legal?
A piece from Dentistry.co.uk caught my eye this morning: Dentists are warned that the law offers little or no protection from patients covertly recording consultations. Patients are within their rights to record consultations and could use the information obtained to challenge their dentist’s actions. ‘Dentists would be cautioned against covertly recording patients’ The increasing use…
TX: Ex-Hospital Employee Blamed in Security Breach
John Perera reports: A hospital in northwest Harris County is warning 741 patients that their personal health information was compromised by a former employee. Several patients at IntraCare North Hospital have reported false income tax returns were filed using their personal information, hospital spokesman John Redd said. That ex-employee was an intake coordinator at the…
Maine VA hospital launches investigation after patient records dumped unshredded into Dumpster
Stephen Betts reports: Patient records were dumped unshredded into a Dumpster last month at the Maine VA Medical Center but a spokesman said the documents never left the campus grounds and that no personal identifying information was disclosed. A bag containing a number of documents from the prosthetics section of the medical center was discovered…
There are hacks, and then there are hacks: AntiSec exposes Lake County Sheriff’s Office operational manuals and information
In case you missed it when I posted it to DataLossDB.org, individuals who self-identy as associated with AntiSec hacked – and then dumped – a lot of sensitive files from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. The hackers announced the hack on April 28 with a video and a listing of some data and…