A federal grand jury had indicated a Georgia man and a Maryland man on charges they possessed 15 or more counterfeited credit cards and equipment for making fraudulent credit or bank-debit cards, United States Attorney Joyce White Vance announced. Sinzinkayo Haji Sinzinkayo, 38, of Jonesboro, Ga., and Damilola Odegbile, also known as “Tony Allen,” 22,…
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Update: NM agencies investigate found files
As an update to an incident previously reported, Gerald Garner Jr. reports: After learning that a handful of sensitive documents had been “discarded” in a local dumpster, Socorro County and county housing authority officials launched an investigation into the matter. In a joint agency press release — issued Monday, Sept. 28 — officials contend the…
UNC security breach less severe than feared
As an update to a previously reported breach: A hacker who wormed into a UNC Chapel Hill computer server may not have gotten access to as much information as officials originally feared. UNC School of Medicine officials said last week that a security breach had left data related to as many as 236,000 women enrolled…
Data-Mining Medical Records Could Predict Domestic Violence
Frederik Joelving reports: To a busy emergency physician, a split lip or a case of poisoning is just one of those things they deal with. But to a computer mining the patient’s medical history, it could be the last diagnosis needed to decipher a pattern of domestic violence. Now, a group of researchers at Harvard…
700,000 Express Scripts members notified of extortion demands (update 2)
As previously reported here Express Scripts recently updated their breach report on the incident from 2008 involving an extortion demand. Now Dina Wisenberg Brin of Dow Jones Newswires provides some additional details, including the statistic that Express Scripts has now sent out approximately 700,000 individual notification letters, total. The company has not revealed how many…
IT security breaches In Canada more than triples in 2009
From a TELUS press release: A new study from TELUS in partnership with Rotman School of Management released today reveals a major increase in annual losses related to Information Technology (IT) security breaches. According to the study which surveyed more than 600 IT security professionals across the country: IT security breaches cost the average Canadian…