The Associated Press reports: A Milton woman working at a Delaware medical office has been arrested for stealing patients’ information and opening credit card accounts. Delaware State Police say 41-year-old Diane Perrin used her position as a medical assistant from February 2008 to March to take 11 patients information and open credit card accounts. Read…
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Senate Panel Clears Data Breach Bills
Eric Chabrow reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved two companion bills that would require businesses and government agencies to notify individuals of security breaches involving sensitive personally identifiable information. Both bills go to the Senate for consideration. The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act, or S. 1490, designates as fraud unauthorized access of sensitive…
MA: Williams College laptop stolen; 750 notified
Williams College in Williamstown reports a recent laptop theft. The laptop, which was stolen when an employee left it in a parked car in Boston on October 3, contained the names and Social Security numbers of 750 individuals from 39 states and several foreign countries. The college notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and…
Facebook and MySpace Flash Vulnerability Exposes User Data
Jason Kincaid writes: A Facebook developer named Yvo Schaap has uncovered a massive security flaw present on both Facebook and MySpace that would give hackers the ability to steal all of your account data, including your photos, personal messages, and basically everything else you’ve ever put on the social networks, without you ever realizing it….
Men allegedly broke into computers of former employer
Dan Goodin reports on a case where former employees were allegedly able to continue to access databases, despite the company terminating old passwords: Scott R. Burgess, 45, of Jasper, Indiana, and Walter D. Puckett, 39, of Williamstown, Kentucky, both worked as managers for Indiana-based Stens Corporation until taking jobs with a competing company in Ohio,…
Health Care Reform in the Breach
Carol Peracchio, a registered nurse, writes: Two weeks ago, I received a letter from the radiology department at a large university medical center in my state. The return address specified their mammography registry. Assuming that it was a reminder to get my yearly exam, I started to toss it out. Then I remembered that I’d…