Joe Harris reports: A woman who was awarded $100,000 after a picture of her nude torso appeared in a newspaper article will get a chance to seek more money, the 8th Circuit ruled. Jane Doe sued three doctors and their plastic surgery business – but not the newspaper – after an April 2006 article in…
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AntiSec dumps 860,000 Stratfor members’ details, including 75,000 credit card numbers
As expected, hackers involved in the recent Stratfor hack have dumped everything other than the 200 GB of e-mails, which they are working on releasing after redaction. In a statement posted on Pastebin tonite that links to mirror sites for the data dump, they write: So now let’s talk… about cocks: It’s time to dump…
UK: Information on 1.4m customers lost by Cattles Group Birstall headquarters
More than a million customers have had their personal details “lost” after a data mix-up at a loan firm’s Birstall headquarters. The Cattles Group, which owns Welcome Finance loans firm, has written to customers informing them that two back-up storage discs with private information about 1.4 million customers have been misplaced. Marlene Proctor, 31, from…
Texas clinic notifies 3,000 patients after 5 computers stolen
It looks like we now have some details on one of the breaches for which we had no information: Stone Oak Urgent Care. Patrick Danner reports: Five computers containing medical and personal information of more than 3,000 patients were stolen from a Stone Oak physician’s office in October. Dr. Sudhir Gogu of the Stone Oak Urgent Care &…
STRATFOR wasn’t the only firm storing full credit card numbers with CVV – Who failed to guide GuideYou.com? (updated)
Three recent breach reports to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that flew under the media radar: Automatic Data Processing (ADP) reported that a laptop stolen from an associate’s home contained information on A. W. Hastings‘ employees including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers. The laptop, stolen November 12, was encrypted and had a logon…
WV: Bank says Va. company failed to prevent ID theft (update1)
Here’s another breach I hadn’t heard about. Interesting to see the bank suing the firm for negligence in security. Kyla Asbury reports: The Bank of Charles Town is suing N/L Entertainment after it claims the company failed to prevent the theft of debit card and credit information of its customers at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas…