It seems that now all of the local media have picked up the story and are reporting on local banks and credit unions. Given the extent of the breach, listing each story as a separate post is unwarranted, but here’s a roundup of stories over the past few days: Another area credit union impacted by…
Author: Dissent
Monster.com Reports Theft of User Data
Deja vu all over again… Nancy Gohring of IDG News Service reports: Monster.com is advising its users to change their passwords after data including e-mail addresses, names and phone numbers were stolen from its database. The break-in comes just as the swelling ranks of the unemployed are turning to sites like Monster.com to look for…
Safeguards Are Needed to Protect Patients’ Data (letter)
Mark Leavitt, chairman of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, has a letter to the editor in the New York Times: Re “Privacy Issue Complicates Push to Link Medical Data†(news article, Jan. 18): Consumer groups and some members of Congress rightly express concern that President Obama’s plan to stimulate the use of information…
Men Plead Guilty In Metro Election Commission Laptop Theft
Robert Osbourne, Randall Cheek and Brent Rucker pled guilty today to the Christmas Eve 2007 theft of a laptop computer from Metro Election Commission. The laptop contained personal information on every registered voter in Davidson County. Osbourne was sentenced to three years in prison, while the other two men were sentenced to two years’ probation….
Arrests Made In Travolta Extortion Plot
Juan McCartney reports: Authorities in the Bahamas have detained an island lawmaker and a paramedic in an alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta after the death of his son, police said Friday. One of the suspects, ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne, was detained on Friday. Earlier, several tabloids quoted him describing efforts to…
Suspect identified in Heartland Payment Systems breach
Evan Schuman at Storefront Backtalk is reporting that the Secret Service has identified an overseas suspect in the Heartland Payment Systems breach. Evan also has some other updated info on the breach: The processor first learned of the breach (when alerted by Visa and Mastercard) in late October/early November, said Heartland spokesman Jason Maloni. Previously,…