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UK: Medical records of 7,000 patients stolen in GP break-in

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Dissent

Alison Anderson reports: A computer databank with personal information of thousands of patients is missing after a break-in at a doctors’ surgery. The hard drive and computer backup tapes containing names, details of illnesses, medical histories and referral letters of more than 7,000 patients in Hackney were taken in a break-in at Clapton’s Nightingale Practice….

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Those oldies but goodies: OSF’s contest uncovers early breaches

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Dissent

If you didn’t participate in the Open Security Foundation‘s fun “Oldest Incident Contest,” you can still enjoy the fruits of others’ labor. The contest ended last week, and it uncovered a lot of fascinating old breaches that have been added to OSF’s DataLoss DB. Grand prize winner Corey J Chandler (AKA “Sorthum”) submitted a 1953…

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Vocus employees notified of possible breach

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Dissent

I think I jinxed Vermont. I had just called them two days ago to inquire whether they really had had no breaches reported since February or if they were just behind in updating their web site. I was told that there had been no breaches to add to that site (although there are other state…

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Almost 40000 VCU students notified of breach

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Dissent

Karin Kapsidelis of the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that 17,214 current and former students at Virginia Commonwealth University are being notified that a computer containing their Social Security numbers was stolen from a secured area of the Cabell Library in mid-April. An additional 22,500 students are being notified that their names and test scores may have…

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Pointer: Judge backs Halifax in Chip and PIN clone case

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Dissent

John Leyden of The Register reports that Halifax Bank customer Alain Job has lost his lawuit against the bank in a case that ” put the security of Chip and PIN on trial.”

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OK: City alerted to security breach

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Dissent

Derrick Miller of The Duncan Banner reports: When Donna Howell, City of Duncan personnel supervisor, went to make an ACH transaction (electronic payment) for the city Tuesday evening, she found something strange. The payment had already been made. Knowing she didn’t make the payment, Howell got the city to look into the matter, and it…

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