Cathleen F. Crowley reports: A burglar stole two laptops from a doctor’s office last week, and with them, records of about 640 patients, according to Oldendorf Medical Services. Staff at Oldendorf, located at 1365 Washington Ave., Suite 100, discovered the theft on Jan. 18. The previous night, a thief picked the locks and entered the…
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Nigerian Man Sentenced For Large Credit Card Fraud Scheme
U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on January 23, 2012, Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye, a citizen of Nigeria and resident of Canada, was sentenced by U.S. District Chief Judge Ralph R. Erickson to 17 years and 10 months in federal prison for one of the largest and most complex credit card schemes in North Dakota banking…
IN: IU Information Security responds to hacking of President’s Challenge website
Kirsten Clark reports: Last semester the President’s Challenge website tracked IU [Indiana University] employees’ nutrition and exercise progress throughout their participation in the Healthy IU fitness competition. On Jan. 19, those same IU employees received an email from President’s Challenge officials delivering some alarming news. “We are writing to inform you about a security issue…
Update: Victoria university’s hard drives found with thieves’ note
Some of the computer devices stolen from the University of Victoria earlier this month have been recovered, along with a repentant note from the thieves that police are finding hard to believe. A postal worker found the hard drives and other computer devices in a green garbage bag stuffed in a mailbox in the nearby…
MD: Social Security, some credit card numbers were stored on public USM server
Andrew Ujifusa reports: The University System of Maryland until recently had been storing information, including Social Security and some credit card numbers, of thousands of prospective students on a server that the public can access, according to a state audit this week. The revelation was among seven findings from a study conducted by the General…
CA: Sequoia Hospital vendor posted hospital employees’ personal information online
Aaron Kinney reports: A contractor working for Sequoia Hospital inadvertently posted the personal information of 391 current and former hospital employees on a public website, where it stayed for four years, the hospital said Thursday. An employee for Towers Watson, an international professional services firm, posted the information in October 2007, hospital CEO Glenna Vaskelis…