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Author: Dissent

OH: Dining Services faces security debacle

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Dissent

Everdeen Mason of Ohio State University’s student paper, The Lantern, reports: It’s been a rough end of the term for Ohio State Dining Services. The director of Dining Services, Thomas Stevenson, has resigned from his position, and 350 student employees had their social security numbers accidentally leaked in an e-mail. “There is absolutely no connection…

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T-Mobile USA investigating claims they were hacked

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Dissent

An email posted to the Full Disclosure mail list on Saturday by pwnmobile_at_Safe-mail.net claims: Like Checkpoint Tmobile has been owned for some time. We have everything, their databases, confidental documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009. We already contacted with their competitors and they didn’t show interest in buying their…

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FL: Clerks fired for using classified database as Match.com

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Dissent

The Associated Press reports that Carol Bass and Helen Lehman, both records clerks at the Fort Myers Police Department, were fired in March after reportedly misusing a classified search database to look up people one of them was considering dating. It’s nice to read more reports of people actually being fired for inappropriate use of…

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NZ: Privacy Commissioner calls for DNA database oversight

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Dissent

Randal Jackson Wellington of Computerworld NZ reports: Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff is calling on the government to create an independent oversight body to monitor New Zealand’s DNA Databank following Computerworld’s revelations of a security breach last week. “The Government is currently proposing expansion of the criminal DNA database. I have recommended an independent oversight body…

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Stolen laptop contained AARP employee data

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Dissent

AARP, the nonprofit association oriented to people over age 50, sent a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on June 3, informing Attorney General Ayotte that they had recently learned that a laptop was stolen from an employee’s home. The laptop, which was stolen on May 22, contained the names, social security numbers,…

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(Follow-up) TX: Fired worker charged in ID theft, child porn

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Dissent

Seen at TMCnet.com: A former Gexa Energy employee has been indicted and faces charges of identity theft related to a breach of the electric retail company’s customer database and possession of child pornography. Steven Jinwoo Kim, 39, was arrested Thursday and released on $75,000 unsecured bond Friday after making an appearance before Magistrate Judge Calvin…

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