Miguel Helft and John Markoff report: Google threatened late Tuesday to pull out of its operations in China after it said it had uncovered a massive cyber attack on its computers that originated there. As a result, the company said, it would no longer agree to censor its search engine in China and may exit…
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NY: Hackers pluck 8,300 customer logins from bank server (updated)
Dan Goodin reports: Hackers have stolen the login credentials for more than 8,300 customers of small New York bank after breaching its security and accessing a server that hosted its online banking system. The intrusion at Suffolk County National Bank happened over a six-day period that started on November 18, according to a release (PDF)…
Two more ID theft cases in the news today
Ever mindful that breaches of N=1 are often devastating to the 1, here are two cases in the news today: TBO in Florida reports: A former manager in The Tampa Tribune sports department pleaded guilty this past week to charges he stole the identity of a one-time friend and colleague to apply for credit cards…
(follow-up) Kaiser employee fired after patient information was stolen from her car
Bobby Caina Calvan reports: A Kaiser Permanente employee was fired last month after a computer storage drive, containing information on 4,000 Sacramento-area patients, was stolen from a car parked at her home, hospital officials reported Tuesday. Read more in The Sacramento Bee.
Kaiser Patient Data Stolen (updated)
KCRA reports: Information regarding approximately 15,000 Kaiser Permanente patients, including about 4,000 people in the Sacramento area, was stolen in December, the organization said Tuesday. Names and medical record numbers — and in some cases age, gender, phone number and general information regarding their medical care — were taken Dec. 1 when an external electronic…
(follow-up) TN: Man Who Worked For Colo. Company Gets Prison Time For ID Theft
As a follow-up to a story reported here in April: A former child support worker has been sentenced to 43 months in prison for aggravated identity theft and fraud. Steven K. Gilmore, 29, of Nashville, was sentenced Monday for selling Social Security and bank account numbers. […] Prosecutors said Gilmore sold to an informant more…