Dan Goodin reports: Hackers say they breached the website security of computer-maker Acer and made off with data for 40,000 of its customers. Screenshots posted on Friday on The Hacker News appeared to show the purchase histories, names, email addresses, and partial addresses and phone numbers for a limited number of customers stored on acer-euro.com. The site said…
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CA: SF utilities agency warns of potential breach
Elinor Mills reports: The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is warning its customers that their personal data may have been exposed in a recent breach, an SFPUC spokesman told CNET today. SFPUC noticed a few weeks ago that an unsecured server that was storing customer data also had some viruses on it, according to spokesman…
AL: 4,500 patient records stolen from Trinity Medical Center
Hannah Wolfson reports: A woman was charged Thursday with stealing 4,500 patients’ medical records from Trinity Medical Center, possibly with the intent of using them for identity theft. Chelsea Catherine Stewart, 26, was arrested Thursday morning by U.S. Postal inspectors, who said they found hundreds of pages with names, birth dates and Social Security numbers…
WA: Man gets 15 years in county’s largest ID-theft case
Jeremy Pawloski reports on a case that reminds us that low-tech crimes still exist and can affect numerous people A judge sentenced an Olympia-area man to 15 years in prison Thursday in connection with what law enforcement has called Thurston County’s largest identity-theft case. Anthony Vaughn, 31, earlier had pleaded guilty to three counts of…
(update) Baptist Hospital Employee Charged After Medical Files Found
WFMY News reports the latest development in a breach mentioned previously on this blog. … a Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center employee, Linda Turner, stole hundreds, possibly thousands, of people’s medical records.They say she kept the files in the basement of a home she owns and other storage units. Prosecutors charged Turner with felony larceny…
Lawmakers Question Sony, Epsilon on Data Breaches
Grant Gross reports: Recent data breaches at Sony’s PlayStation Network and at e-mail service provider Epsilon will lead to legislation focused on improving cybersecurity at U.S. companies, the chairwoman of a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee said Thursday. Representative Mary Bono Mack, a California Republican, said she will soon introduce legislation focused on ensuring that…