The Associated Press reports that Carol Bass and Helen Lehman, both records clerks at the Fort Myers Police Department, were fired in March after reportedly misusing a classified search database to look up people one of them was considering dating. It’s nice to read more reports of people actually being fired for inappropriate use of…
Category: Breach Incidents
Stolen laptop contained AARP employee data
AARP, the nonprofit association oriented to people over age 50, sent a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on June 3, informing Attorney General Ayotte that they had recently learned that a laptop was stolen from an employee’s home. The laptop, which was stolen on May 22, contained the names, social security numbers,…
(Follow-up) TX: Fired worker charged in ID theft, child porn
Seen at TMCnet.com: A former Gexa Energy employee has been indicted and faces charges of identity theft related to a breach of the electric retail company’s customer database and possession of child pornography. Steven Jinwoo Kim, 39, was arrested Thursday and released on $75,000 unsecured bond Friday after making an appearance before Magistrate Judge Calvin…
UK: Medical records of 7,000 patients stolen in GP break-in
Alison Anderson reports: A computer databank with personal information of thousands of patients is missing after a break-in at a doctors’ surgery. The hard drive and computer backup tapes containing names, details of illnesses, medical histories and referral letters of more than 7,000 patients in Hackney were taken in a break-in at Clapton’s Nightingale Practice….
Those oldies but goodies: OSF’s contest uncovers early breaches
If you didn’t participate in the Open Security Foundation‘s fun “Oldest Incident Contest,” you can still enjoy the fruits of others’ labor. The contest ended last week, and it uncovered a lot of fascinating old breaches that have been added to OSF’s DataLoss DB. Grand prize winner Corey J Chandler (AKA “Sorthum”) submitted a 1953…
Vocus employees notified of possible breach
I think I jinxed Vermont. I had just called them two days ago to inquire whether they really had had no breaches reported since February or if they were just behind in updating their web site. I was told that there had been no breaches to add to that site (although there are other state…