Lina Savickas reports: The personal information of about 400 Benedictine students and a few non-students within the Election Judge Training Program was inadvertently posted online on the program’s Facebook page, according to Executive Vice President Charlie Gregory. Personal information including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers was on a spreadsheet…
Author: Dissent
NY: Fraudulent transactions traced back to Civic Center and Oncenter
A series of unauthorized credit card charges are under investigation by the Syracuse Police Department. All the charges are potentially related to a data breach in or around the Onondaga County Civic Center. The breach was discovered when approximately 100 individuals found unauthorized charges posted to their accounts. In all the cases, Syracuse Police say…
Former University of California IT employee sentenced to one year and a day for ID theft
Cam Giang was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for his role in an identity theft scheme, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. A restitution hearing in this case has been scheduled for Jan. 20, 2011. Giang, 31, of San Francisco, Calif., pled guilty on July 22, 2010, to one count…
Ca: Personal data at risk, study found
Dana Flavelle reports that private investigators hired by an association of secure document disposal companies found lots of personal information in dumpsters in the Greater Toronto area. Doctors offices and car dealers got an unwanted shout-out in their findings. Most organizations, especially large banks and hospitals, are doing a good job of disposing of sensitive…
Sperm donors' privacy rights should trump rights of offspring, Vancouver court told
Neal Hall reports: The privacy rights of anonymous sperm donors should outweigh the constitutional rights of donor offspring, a government lawyer argued today. Leah Greathead, the lawyer representing B.C.’S attorney general, told a B.C. Supreme Court judge that Olivia Pratten has a very sympathetic claim — she wants to know details of her genetic history…
Wisconsin hospital adds hand scans to ID patients
Shamane Mills of WPR reports: Hospitals in New York and San Diego are using hand scans to identify patients. Now a Wisconsin hospital is too. Patients with the same name even the same birthday are rare but it’s one of things that a new system at UW Hospital and Clinics in Madison is designed to…