This story just gets weirder and weirder…. A hospital worker inside St. Anthony Central Hospital says Paul Simmons and his friends made her steal personal information about patients or said they would kill her daughter, according to arrest warrants released Wednesday. Read more on 9News.com
Author: Dissent
NameDrive Breached, Less Than 1% of Accounts Affected
E-mail addresses and passwords for a limited number of NameDrive customers were obtained and posted in a hacker forum this month. The security breach just came to light today. NameDrive has responded by instituting new security measures including password resets: We were alerted of a possible security breach affecting less than 1% of our accounts,…
Woman Sentenced For Unlawful Access To Stored Communications.
This was a January 12th press release that never got picked up in my usual searches… United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced that today Tina Kafka pled guilty and was sentenced in federal court in San Diego by United States District Judge M. James Lorenz to serve two years of probation, and a special…
Experts urge overhaul of health privacy rules
Will Dunham reports: Current government rules do too little to protect the privacy of people’s personal health information and also hinder the use of health data in medical research, a panel of experts reported on Wednesday. A committee of the Institute of Medicine, which provides advice to U.S. policymakers, urged Congress to take an entirely…
Former Bank Of America Employee Pleads Guilty to Misappropriating More than $29 Million
In this incident, the defendant was first charged with the crime on January 22nd and pled guilty yesterday. The following is a statement from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida: R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael K. Fithen, Special Agent in Charge,…
Secret Service nabs Best Buy employee for skimming customers’ cards
On February 2, Best Buy notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General of a security breach involving an employee stealing customer credit card data at the Best Buy store at 1880 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd. in West Palm Beach. The problem was detected on January 5, and the employee was taken into custody by the…