The following incidents have been added to HHS’s web site of reported breaches involving unsecured PHI: University of Pittsburgh Student Health Center State: Pennsylvania Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 8,000 Date of Breach: 3/11/10 Type of Breach: Theft, Loss Location of Breached Information: Paper Records Laboratory Corporation of America/US LABS/Dianon Systems, Inc. State: Arizona Approx….
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NY’s Higher Education Services Corp had its own breach last year
In discussing the huge Educational Credit Management Corp data breach previously covered on this site, Rick Karlin of the Times Union mentions a second and unrelated breach, this one by New York’s Higher Education Services Corp: [The breach] happened back in December when 1,433 e-mails from HESC ran into a “process error” by which the…
2d hacker in TJX case sentenced to 5 years
Todd Wallack reports: Another hacker involved in the TJX credit card theft case, Damon Patrick Toey, has been sent to prison. US District Court Judge William G. Young yesterday sentenced Toey, who lived in Florida and Virginia, to five years in prison and $100,000 fine for helping Miami hacker Albert Gonzalez steal tens of millions…
(follow-up) St Albans laptop theft suspect released
Alex Lewis reports: The man arrested for stealing a laptop computer containing the addresses of thousands of people in St Albans has been released by police without charge. The 35-year-old Stevenage man, employed by a contractor providing computer services to the authority, was arrested in October after it emerged that a computer with the personal…
Boy, 9, accused of hacking into Fairfax schools’ computer system
Tom Jackman reports: Are you smarter than a third-grader? Because the online education system used by the Fairfax County public schools apparently is not. Police say a 9-year-old McLean boy hacked into the Blackboard Learning System used by the county school system to change teachers’ and staff members’ passwords, change or delete course content, and…
Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Prosecutors Seek 6 Year Sentence for TJX Hacker’s ‘Trusted’ Accomplice
Kim Zetter reports: If TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez had gone to trial instead of pleading out, one man would have been the primary witness against him — accomplice Damon Patrick Toey. Toey, identified often in court documents simply as “PT,” provided information that investigators say likely helped persuade Gonzalez to plead guilty last year to…