KIRO 7 investigated a report that 30-40 boxes containing personal information of nurses — “medical records, social security numbers, driver’s licenses, financial records, legal documents, bank records, W2s” — were being dumped in garbage cans of a local spice shop over the past few weeks: The files appear to belong to a company called Code…
Category: Breach Incidents
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Bulfrano Maldonado was found guilty of identity theft. Maldonado had successfully opened a bank account in another person’s name and managed to obtain two loans. He was only caught when he tried to convert the loan to his own name by telling the bank he had changed his name — and…
UK: 2,000 hospital patients’ records stolen
Although there are a number of cases reported involving stolen laptops or computers out of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), I continue to be impressed at how many of the thefts involve data that were actually encrypted. It seems like a rarity here to hear that a stolen laptop was encrypted, but perhaps we…
Casino company breached the Data Protection Act
London Clubs International Limited (LCI), which operates 11 casinos throughout the UK, is improving data security following the theft of an unencrypted laptop containing the data of approximately 26,000 customers. Roy Ramm, on behalf of LCI, has signed an Undertaking after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found LCI in breach of the Data Protection Act….
McAfee sends out customer details in email
Security vendor McAfee has sent out a bulk email containing the contact details of over 1400 security professionals that attended its recent conference in Sydney. The email revealed demographic data collected during the registration process for the McAfee Strategic Security Summit, held in Sydney on Friday July 17, as well as the full contact details…
Man arrested in scam case
A fifth person has been arrested in connection with what police are calling the “Jamaican lottery scam” investigation, which already has seen four other Routt County residents federally indicted and arraigned. Dean Leslie Mowatt, 31, was booked into the Routt County Jail on Sunday and is suspected of theft, identity theft, criminal possession of a…