Johns Hopkins University has notified the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services of a breach involving 692 of its Applied Physics Laboratory employees’ dependents. Because HHS’s breach logs don’t provide a lot of detail, I contacted JHU for additional information on the incident. As I have come to expect from them, they promptly responded with full…
Author: Dissent
Thames Valley District hacker: “I did it to prove to people that their information isn’t as secure as they think”
Norman De Bono updates the story on the Thames Valley District hack: The board’s student portal was hacked, and Facebook quickly became rife with reports it was the work of a 16-year-old, Lucan-area student in Grade 11 at Medway high school in Arva. In Facebook message exchanges, someone purporting to be the youth said he…
Medical records found at public recycling dumpster
Chellie Mills of KFOR reports that hundreds of folders containing medical records and Social Security Numbers were found at the Norman Recycling Center. The files appear to be associated with two medical practices in the Norman, Oklahoma area: Norman Pediatric Associates and Norman Urology. A lawyer for the latter practice said: Walters says, “They were…
WA: Two women plead guilty to ID theft and wire fraud conspiracy
Low-tech still pays. Today, Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jacquelyn Ann Crawford, age 40, and Charlene M. Haggard, age 43, both of Spokane pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Sentencing is scheduled for February 17, 2011. At their change of…
FSA loses 41 laptops and Blackberries in three years
From the U.K. -ministry-of-irony: A regular criticism from the FSA when it comes to issuing bans on financial advisors is that they failed to demonstrate being ‘a fit and proper person’… the regulator might want to discuss these attributes with its workers, who have lost 41 laptops and Blackberries in the last year. All of…
Ca: Hacker wreaks havoc on Thames board website
Norman De Bono reports: A computer hacker breached security on the Thames Valley District school board’s website, meaning marks and timetables for 27,000 students – a small city of teenagers – could be accessed. The board has called in police and said the system was shut down “within an hour,” with no chance marks could…