Tens of thousands of fraudulent iTunes accounts are for sale on a major Chinese website, it has been revealed. Around 50,000 accounts linked to stolen credit cards are listed on auction site TaoBao, the country’s equivalent of eBay. Buyers are promised temporary access to unlimited downloads from the service for as little as 1 yuan…
Author: Dissent
(update) EVG Quality Gas breach, Sierra Madre
A small update to the story by Adolfo Flores of the Pasadena Star News: The Secret Service has been called in. As significantly, the police are still looking for the owner of the gas station who closed the business and left town during Christmas week – right before all of the fraud reports starting coming…
Patients at Dallas County Judicial Treatment Center sue Cornell Companies for Privacy Violation
Courthouse News reports: DALLAS – Cornell Cos., which builds and operates jails, told 35 women it would film treatment sessions for a video to be shown only to drug court judges, but used it to promote its business, the women claim in Dallas County Court. The complaint, filed in Texas by Theresa Watkins and 35…
(update) Grant Medical Center notice on data breach
Following a story in today’s Columbus Dispatch, reported earlier today on this blog, Grant Medical Center has issued the following press release and substitute notice on its web site: POTENTIAL SECURITY BREACH AT GRANT COLUMBUS, Ohio – On November 5, 2010, Grant Medical Center discovered that out-of- service computers were stolen from an inventory storage…
Heraeus breach: missing tapes may be buried in landfill
Through its lawyers, Heraeus Incorporated notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on December 29 of a security breach. According to the letter, the company noticed on November 18 that a steel cabinet that contained a safe with backup tapes was missing. The company believes (but cannot be sure) that the cabinet was discarded as…
Missing Heraeus backup tapes contained medical info
Through its lawyers, Heraeus Incorporated notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on December 29 of a security breach. According to the letter, the company noticed on November 18 that a steel cabinet that contained a safe with backup tapes was missing. The company believes (but cannot be sure) that the cabinet was discarded…