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ID theft feared as files found in street in East New York, Brooklyn

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Dissent

I know that most of the world is more concerned with electronic data breaches than paper breaches, but I’ve always been as concerned, and in some cases, more concerned, about paper breaches. Here’s another example from New York, reported by Veronika Belenkaya of the NY Daily News: Dozens of confidential files with city public housing…

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TN: Sensitive School Info Found Along Road

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Dissent

Josh DeVine of WSMV reports that confidential records including 21 students’ names, Social Security numbers and disabilities were found in the street. The students had all attended Bailey Middle School in 2006.

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Overseas card fraud scam exposed

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Dissent

Alan Little of BBC News reports: A criminal gang selling UK credit card details stolen from Indian call centres has been exposed by an undercover BBC News investigation. Reporters posing as fraudsters bought UK names, addresses and valid credit card details from a Delhi-based man. The seller denied any wrongdoing and Symantec corporation, from whom…

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Visa Security Summit opens with no sympathy for Heartland

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Dissent

The Visa Security Summit 2009 is going on today.  You can watch a live webcast at http://www.visasecuritysummit.com (free registration required). Ellen Richey, Chief Enterprise Risk Officer for Visa, Inc. wasted little time in her opening remarks before getting to the recent Heartland Payment Systems breach and Visa’s confidence in PCI DSS as an important tool…

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Bits ‘n Pieces

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Dissent

In the justice system: Diane Michelle Nicholson, a former employee of the Holladay Park Plaza retirement care facility, is accused of stealing credit cards and checks from multiple elderly tenants and patients. Read more. Dr. Lisa Michelle Barden, the physician accused of stealing patients’ identities and faking other doctors’ signatures to obtain thousands of prescription…

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Ca: Increased access to medical files a concern for retired nurses

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Dissent

Gary Kean of The Western Star reports: A pair of retired registered nurses from Corner Brook have plenty of questions about the accessibility of medical files under the care of Western Health. Eva Joan Lee spent her career in a community health setting, working with adult patients, while Marjorie Deckert was a nurse in a…

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