Mallory Peebles reports: A stolen hard drive belonging to the city of Waseca is safely recovered. The hard drive is recovered after Waseca police received a tip call about teens looking into cars. The juveniles were questioned and one voluntarily admitted to taking the hard drive from a vehicle last Monday. It contained personal information…
Author: Dissent
Data breach puts 16,000 Finns’ details online
YLE reports: More than 16,000 Finnish people have had their data leaked on a file-sharing website. Social security numbers, home addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses were among the leaked data. According to F-Secure CEO Mikko Hyppönen, it is not yet known how the information ended up online, but it looks as though it could…
Breach in online payment system for Lawrence Memorial Hospital exposed up to 10,000 patients’ credit card or checking information
A public notice issued by Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas that appeared on 6News (but not, apparently, on the hospital’s web site yet): On October 28, 2011, Lawrence Memorial Hospital learned that certain information maintained by Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc., d/b/a Blue Sky Credit, the hospital’s vendor for online patient bill-pay services, was inadvertently…
Veteran Alleges Another Privacy Breach At Agency
From CBC: Another veterans’ advocate says government officials breached his privacy by unnecessarily going into his medical record hundreds of times, one year after Sean Bruyea settled a similar complaint. In an interview with Evan Solomon, host of CBC Radio’s The House, Dennis Manuge said he decided to look into his own file when he…
IL: Debit card numbers stolen at Height’s McDonald’s
An employee at the McDonald’s restaurant at 3717 N. Prospect Road was arrested Friday for allegedly using customers’ debit-card numbers to buy goods online. Ericka Hendon, 23, of 7804 N. St. Joseph Court in Peoria Heights was arrested on 21 counts of deceptive practice, 21 counts of identity theft, four counts of felony theft and…
(update) Federal Reserve Bank hacker gets 10 year sentence
Thom Weidlich reports: A Malaysian man who pleaded guilty to conducting a credit-card scheme and who was accused of hacking the Federal Reserve’s computers got a 10-year prison sentence. Lin Mun Poo, 32, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dora L. Irizarry in Brooklyn, New York. In April, he pleaded guilty to illegally possessing…