Privacy and information management research firm Ponemon Institute, together with PGP Corporation, a global leader in trusted data protection, today announced the results of the first-ever global study into the costs incurred by organisations after experiencing a data breach. The 2009 Annual Study: Global Cost of a Data Breach report, compiled by The Ponemon Institute…
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(follow-up) Childs found guilty in SF network password case
Robert McMillan reports: Terry Childs, the San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords to his boss, was found guilty of one felony count of denying computer services, a jury found Tuesday. Childs now faces a maximum of five years in prison after jurors determined that he had violated California’s computer crime law…
Swiss mull lawsuit against Germany over bank data
Switzerland is still considering whether to take Germany to court over the purchase of stolen bank data the country is using to root out tax dodgers, Swiss President Doris Leuthard said on Wednesday. “The government has not yet decided,” Leuthard told broadcaster Deutschlandfunk ahead of a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Some…
(follow-up) UCLA Researcher Gets Jail for Snooping into Celebrity Medical Records
If memory serves, employees of the State Department who snooped into celebrity passports got probation. Here’s a case where celebrity snooping — of medical records — actually resulted in prison, even though the data were not otherwise misused or sold: A former UCLA School of Medicine researcher was sentenced to four months in federal prison…
(follow-up) UCLA Researcher Gets Jail for Snooping into Celebrity Medical Records
A former UCLA School of Medicine researcher was sentenced to four months in federal prison for illegally snooping into the confidential private records of celebrities, high-profile patients and co-workers. 48 year old Huping Zhou pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles in January to four misdemeanor counts of violating federal privacy provisions….
13,700 Nihon U. staffers have data leaked online
Personal data on at least 13,700 Nihon University personnel has been leaked on the Internet, according to the university. The leak occurred when a school official brought the data home with him on his personal computer, on which the Winny file-sharing software had been installed. According to the school’s public relations office, the leaked data…