Karin Spaink provides an English summary of some news reports that a Rabobank employee lost a USB drive containing personal and financial data on 3000 customers: An employee of the Rabobank lost his USB stick, which held the data of 3000 customers. Apart from the personal information of each of those customers, the stick contained…
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Suspected computer hack compromises Anchorage credit, debit card holders
Christine Kim reports: Just a simple swipe can lead to a ripple of consequences. Up to 1,000 Anchorage residents may be affected by a credit card crime. Police say it may have been a computer hack that stole the information about credit and debit card holders. Detectives are still trying to figure out who was…
Inmate gets 18 months for hacking prison computer
In a follow-up to a case reported in September, Robert McMillan reports: A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated. Francis “Frank” Janosko, 44, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Boston for abusing a computer provided by the Plymouth County Correctional Facility….
Citigroup, law enforcement refute cyber heist report
Jeremy Kirk and Robert McMillan report: Citigroup and a federal law enforcement source on Tuesday refuted a claim that the bank’s customers lost millions of dollars in an advanced cyber heist over the summer, leaving lingering questions over details of the alleged attack. […] A source within federal law enforcement who declined to be identified…
Invisible Bracelet and its privacy policy
Perhaps you saw the news headlines this week about the “Invisible Bracelet.” Lauran Neergaard of Associated Press reports: Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation’s ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient’s health history during a crisis — and which can immediately text-message loved ones that…
Doctor alleges second person also changed patients' records in WDH privacy breach
Adam D. Krause remains all over this story: A doctor impacted by the privacy breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital says a second employee improperly accessed and changed patients’ records but never lost her job. “There was another woman that’s still working at the hospital,” said Dr. Cheryl Moore, whose Piscataqua Pathology Associates group was contracted to…