Tennessee-based EOD Technology (EODT) recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach that occurred in August 2008. No, that’s not a typo: 2008. By letter dated November 12, the firm reported that in August 2008, they became aware that one of their computers had been accessed by an individual or individuals outside…
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Federal Reserve Hacker Steals 400,000 Credit Card Numbers: Feds
Jonathan Dienst reports: A Malaysian man hacked his way into the Federal Reserve Bank’s computers in Cleveland and also had more than 400,000 stolen credit card numbers when Secret Service agents finally caught up with him, federal prosecutors said. Lin Mun Poo was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport last month as he traveled to…
Liberty Coalition gives University of Hawaii an ‘F’ for data breaches
In a news report headlined, “Data breaches earn UH an ‘F’,” Gordon Y.K. Pang reports: A national organization has given the University of Hawaii a grade of “F” for online security breaches that exposed Social Security numbers and other sensitive information in nearly 260,000 records. The Liberty Coalition, a nonprofit civil liberties watchdog group, yesterday…
Security flaws found in Nova Scotia government
Keith Doucette reports: Security weaknesses in computer systems operated by Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations place a wide range of personal and business information at risk, the auditor general concluded in a report released Wednesday. Jacques Lapointe said he found problems in the way passwords are controlled, computer accounts are set up and security…
CIA Must Disclose Records on Human Experiments
Annie Youderian reports: A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco ordered the CIA to produce specific records and testimony about the human experiments the government allegedly conducted on thousands of soldiers from 1950 through 1975. Three veterans groups and six individual veterans sued the CIA and other government agencies, claiming they used about 7,800 soldiers as…
Verizon breach disclosure web launched
Last week I posted a news item that Verizon was creating a web site where breaches could be reported anonymously. U.K. lawyer Stewart Room raises an interesting concern about using the site: This is a fascinating concept, but from a legal perspective it is potentially fraught with difficulty for those organisations whose employees decide to…