This 2010 Ponemon Institute benchmark study, sponsored by Symantec Corporation, examines the costs incurred by 38 organisations after experiencing a data breach. Results were not hypothetical responses; they represent cost estimates for activities resulting from actual data loss incidents. This is the fourth annual study of this issue. Breaches included in the study ranged from…
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OR: Up To 75 VA Patient ID Cards Missing
KPTV reports: Dozens of patients at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center could be at risk for identity theft after their identity cards were lost. Medical center staff say 50 to 75 patient ID cards were lost in late January. The cards were being held by the hospital after they had been returned due to…
Up To 75 VA Patient ID Cards Missing
KPTV reports: Dozens of patients at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center could be at risk for identity theft after their identity cards were lost. Medical center staff say 50 to 75 patient ID cards were lost in late January. The cards were being held by the hospital after they had been returned due to…
Personal information found in dumpster
Note: this story refers to the City of Cleveland, Texas – not Ohio. Vanesa Brashier reports: The City of Cleveland will be reviewing how it handles documents that are shared with council members after 10 job applications were found in a public recycling dumpster in Cleveland. The citizen who found the documents turned them over…
Spoiled Rotten Day Spa Owner Arrested, Charged With Fraud
The former owner of Spoiled Rotten Day Spa in Aptos was arrested Friday after several clients reported several thousand dollars in fraudulent credit card charges paid to the spa appeared on their credit card statements. One victim reported that his credit card had been fraudulently used four times for a total of $9,600. Spa owner…
(follow-up) Leader of Hacker Gang Sentenced to 9 Years For Hospital Malware
Kevin Poulsen reports that Jesse William McGraw, aka “GhostExodus,” has been sentenced for trying to install malware on the computer network at Northern Central Medical Plaza in Dallas, Texas. As reported previously, McGraw worked the medical facility as a night security guard and was caught, in part, because he videotaped himself and uploaded it to…