Bill Flook reports: LivingSocial Inc. confirmed Thursday that a laptop containing personal information of a few hundreds (sic) current and former employees was stolen last month. In an internal email obtained by the Washington Business Journal, LivingSocial human resources chief Jennifer Trzepacz warned that the computer, pinched Oct. 17, may have contained data including names,…
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UK: Oliver Letwin breached data protection laws, report confirms (updated)
Hélène Mulholland reports the follow-up to a breach reported previously on this blog: Oliver Letwin committed a series of data protection breaches by dumping correspondence from constituents in a park bin close to Downing Street, according to the information commissioner. The letters and emails contained the names, addresses and contact details of about 20 individuals,…
NY: Arrest Made In Smokers Choice ID Theft
A New York City man was charged with felony identity theft last week at the Columbia County Jail upon his release by the Claverack Town Court on a similar charge. State Police charged Sekhou Toure, 27, with first degree identity theft. […] With the assistance of area banks and credit unions it was determined that the…
Santa Clara University: Hacker changed grades of 60 students
Sean Webby and Lisa Fernandez report: Santa Clara University’s academic records database was recently hacked to improve the grades of more than 60 former and current undergraduate students, the university announced Monday. The university called in the FBI, which is assisting in the ongoing investigation, according to university officials. No arrests have been reported. “We…
Healthcare most breached industry in 2011? Not by my analyses.
To his credit, Dave Kennedy tried to analyze breaches based on Privacy Rights Clearinghouse data. PRC’s database begins with 2005 breaches and allows interested individuals to sort by year, breach type, and sector. After pulling out the numbers for 2010 and 2011 to compare to previous years, Kennedy reports that healthcare was/is the most breached…
Large-scale data theft fazes Finnish cops
From AFP: Finnish police on Monday called on users of online services to change their passwords after nearly 15 000 user names and passwords were stolen and published on the internet. “If I could get one message across to people, it would be to change your passwords, especially the important ones,” Timo Piiroinen of the…