Tara Johnson reports: Auburn Police assisted the Millbury Police Department in the arrest of two women from Connecticut on Tuesday, May 24, currently under investigation for identity theft. According to Auburn Police Sgt. Jeffrey Lourie, the two women were taken into custody after they acquired several credit card account applications at Toys-R-Us and Macy’s Department…
Author: Dissent
EDITORIAL: LulzSec Targets Elderly in the Wake of Latest Sony Hacks
The Daily Tech published an editorial yesterday. Here’s how it begins: There’s no real winners with the latest Sony hack Sometimes there’s just a story that’s just plain sad all around. This is arguably the case with the latest hack of Sony Corp (6758), in which the company lost another 1 million user records and hackers…
AZ: Casa Grande court clerk hid, took home records
Yesterday I updated a breach report on phiprivacy.net where a hospital employee had taken records home… and taken records home… and taken records home. According to hospital investigators, there was no indication that she used them criminally or intended to use them criminally, but the incident points out how many paper records may just “wander”…
Financial data stealing Malware now on Amazon Web Services Cloud
Dmitry Bestuzhev of Kaspersky writes: There were some recent comments about Amazon Cloud as a platform for successful attacks on Sony… Well, today I found that Amazon Web services (Cloud) now is being used to spread financial data stealers. The evidence indicates that the criminals behind the attack are from Brazil and they used several…
(update) Police and Hospital Workers Find, Remove More Boxes Of Stolen Medical Records
This case just gets more and more intriguing, and the medical center has disclosed a lot of information that I typically don’t see is initial press releases. Devetta Blount reports: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center employees and police say they are still on the case of stolen medical records. Employees spent Saturday reviewing more records that…
MI: Big changes for medical marijuana users
According to a Michigan federal court judge on Friday, medical marijuana patients have no right to privacy. Federal Judge Hugh Brenneman Jr. ruled that Michigan medical marijuana patients have no right to privacy when it comes to a federal investigation involving marijuana. In short, medical marijuana patients should not expect the information they give to…