A follow-up to a breach first reported in December 2009. Dan Raywood writes: With every data breach there is a victim. While it may often ‘just’ be a username, password or email address that is leaked, someone is bound to be affected. The announcement of a potential compromise of data could scare some more than…
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Arizona state police confirm 2nd hack on officers’ email
Howard Fischer reports: A new computer attack Wednesday on the Department of Public Safety hit only officers’ outside and personal emails and, unlike last week, not the agency’s own computers, DPS Capt. Steve Harrison said. He said it appears the two incidents are linked, with those who broke into the DPS computers last week stealing…
TN: Laptop with more than 1,500 patients' data stolen
Chris Echegaray reports: A laptop containing more than 1,500 patient names and their personal information was stolen from a medical billing company employee’s car last month. PhyData LLC, a medical billing and management company in Goodlettsville, reported the laptop stolen from the trunk of the worker’s vehicle at RiverGate Mall on May 7, said Joy…
AU: Mosman Municipal Council hacked by Anonymous?
Hamish Barwick reports: Sydney’s Mosman Municipal Council website has suffered a security breach that made the details of nine council staff available for download. However, according to a statement on the Council’s website no ratepayer information from the internal systems had been accessed. The hack was made via an SQL injection exploit on a subsidiary…
Woman charged with stealing information of 4,000 Trinity patients
Melynda Sides reports: A 26-year-old woman from Alabaster has been charged with stealing information from thousands of patients at Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham. Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted Chelsea Catherine Stewart for stealing identifying information from more than 4,000 patients, possessing stolen mail, attempting to commit bank fraud, misusing a Social Security number…
DefenseNews hacked
Gregg Keizer reports: Email addresses and names of subscribers to DefenseNews, a highly-regarded website that covers national and international military and defense news, were accessed by hackers and presumed stolen, Gannett announced yesterday. DefenseNews ‘ subscribers include active and retired military personnel, defense contractors and others in both the U.S. and other countries’ defense establishments….