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California public health dept. announces lost tape had medical and personal info on residents and workers

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Dissent

Wow – two state departments of public health reveal breaches in a 24-hour period?  First it was Connecticut, reported on this blog earlier today, and now California.  Here’s a statement from the California Department of Public Health: The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has reported to state authorities that a missing magnetic tape, delivered from one…

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Personal info on drug informants, suspects, others exposed in Colo.

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Dissent

Kathleen Hickey provides a few more details on the Mesa County, Colorado breach (previously mentioned on this blog) that exposed personal information on informants and others: Potentially more than 200,000 files from the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office of Colorado, including sensitive data such as names, Social Security numbers and contact information on drug informants, employees,…

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PA: Two arrested at Limerick outlets for identity theft

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Dissent

Ellen Faust reports: Two New York men were arrested after being caught at a store with false identities and hundreds of bank account numbers, Social Security numbers and other personal information that was not their own. Vladimir Pascal, aka Derrick Brown, and David Rice, aka Clifford Augustine, both of Brooklyn, N.Y., were to be arraigned…

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Ohio State notifies 760,000 of unauthorized access to university server

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Dissent

Earlier this year, Ohio State University (OSU) noted that they had been averaging about data breaches per year, usually minor, but involving SSN.  Yesterday, they revealed another breach. I’m not sure how you try to minimize access to a server containing PII on 760,000 people or a finding that your server was used to launch…

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U.S. Bank Hit with Class Action Suit Alleging Data Breach Cover-Up

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Dissent

Jason C. Gavejian writes: Paintball Punks filed a class action suit against U.S. Bank in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The case was subsequently removed on December 6, 2010, to the Minneapolis District Court. In the complaint, Paintball Punks alleges that between August and December 2009 it received 9 orders totaling approximately $11,000, which were fraudulently billed…

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Do Walgreens, McDonald’s, and deviantART breaches have common point of compromise? (updated)

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Dissent

Dan Goodin reports: FBI agents looking into the theft of customer data belonging to McDonald’s are investigating similar breaches that may have hit more than 100 other companies that used email marketing services from Atlanta-based Silverpop Systems . “The breach is with Silverpop, an email service provider that has over 105 customers,” Stephen Emmett, a…

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