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Surrey RCMP and Vancouver Police Department disrupt credit card fraud ring

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Dissent

An extensive number of charges are being considered against individuals in the Lower Mainland after the Surrey RCMP and the Vancouver Police Department teamed up to put a stop to a fraud ring operating out of Vancouver. The Surrey RCMP Combined Forces Identity Theft Team (CFITT) began a Fraud investigation after receiving information regarding a…

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Johns Hopkins University e-mail attachment error exposed personal info

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Dissent

Johns Hopkins University has notified the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services of a breach involving 692 of  its Applied Physics Laboratory employees’ dependents.  Because HHS’s breach logs don’t provide a lot of detail, I contacted JHU for additional information on the incident.  As I have come to expect from them, they promptly responded with…

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Thames Valley District hacker: “I did it to prove to people that their information isn’t as secure as they think”

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dissent

Norman De Bono updates the story on the Thames Valley District hack: The board’s student portal was hacked, and Facebook quickly became rife with reports it was the work of a 16-year-old, Lucan-area student in Grade 11 at Medway high school in Arva. In Facebook message exchanges, someone purporting to be the youth said he…

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Medical records found at public recycling dumpster

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dissent

Chellie Mills of KFOR reports that hundreds of folders containing medical records and Social Security Numbers were found at the Norman Recycling Center. The files appear to be associated with two medical practices in the Norman, Oklahoma area: Norman Pediatric Associates and Norman Urology. A lawyer for the latter practice said: Walters says, “They were…

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FSA loses 41 laptops and Blackberries in three years

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dissent

From the U.K. -ministry-of-irony: A regular criticism from the FSA when it comes to issuing bans on financial advisors is that they failed to demonstrate being ‘a fit and proper person’… the regulator might want to discuss these attributes with its workers, who have lost 41 laptops and Blackberries in the last year. All of…

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Ca: Hacker wreaks havoc on Thames board website

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dissent

Norman De Bono reports: A computer hacker breached security on the Thames Valley District school board’s website, meaning marks and timetables for 27,000 students – a small city of teenagers – could be accessed. The board has called in police and said the system was shut down “within an hour,” with no chance marks could…

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