In the justice system: A 25-count indictment was issued against Timothy Kuskowski on charges of stealing the identities of nearly two dozen Coloradans and using them to pass fake checks in 10 counties across Colorado. More. Frederick Eugene Wood will be arraigned later this week. He is accused of using file-sharing software to steal information…
Author: Dissent
Mitsubishi UFJ says 49,159 customer records leaked
Junko Fujita of Thomson Reuters reports that Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s brokerage unit experienced a data breach when a former employee took records on 1.5 million customers home. Records on 49,159 customers, including personal and salary details, were sold to data list agents. The firm says that most of the records have been retrieved.
Hawaii Department of Transportation laptop stolen; 1,892 notified
Curtis Lum of The Honolulu Advertiser reports that 1,892 people with Hawaii commercial driver’s licenses are being notified this week that a Department of Transportation computer containing their names, addresses, Social Security numbers and other personal information was stolen March 18th from s state office. The laptop had been left unattended in the office.
WebHosting Talk User Data Hacked
Liam Eagle reports: Internet media company iNet Interactive (www.inetinteractive.com) posted an update to the circumstances surrounding the attack suffered by the Web Hosting Talk message board March 21, saying that some user credit card data was compromised in the attack and has been posted publicly by the attacker. […] According to the post, the attacker…
VA: Medical records blowing in the wind
CBS 6 reports that hundreds of medical records from patients at Richmond Dermatology and Laser Specialists were blowing around a parking lot. The records included, “patient lists, insurance information, social security information, phone numbers and treatment records that included one patient being treated for the herpes STD.” So how did the medical office respond when…
Memo: remember to lock the bank
In February 2008, a news story from the UK caught my eye. A 5 year-old boy had wandered into a branch of HSBC that had been left essentially open overnight due to what the bank subsequently described as a malfunction with the door catch. Now there’s another story out of the UK that also involves…