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UK: Man prosecuted for taking files with job candidates’ personal info with him when he resigned to start rival company

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Dissent

Gregory Orum has been prosecuted at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court for an offence of unlawfully obtaining personal data.  The defendant, who at the time worked at a recruitment agency based in Hertfordshire, emailed the personal data of approximately 500 candidates to his personal email address as he was leaving to start a new rival recruitment…

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More reports of false tax returns in wake of W-2 phishing scams

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Dissent

One of the many companies who became victims of W-2 phishing this year is Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group, a property and casualty insurance firm with headquarters in Virginia. DataBreaches.net became aware of their incident when contacted by a former employee. According to BMAG’s notification to employees  dated March 10, they had no then-current evidence of any misuse of employees’…

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VCU Health System notifies 2,700 of inappropriate access to their medical records

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Dissent

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: Virginia Commonwealth University Health System is notifying about 2,700 people that their or their minor child’s electronic medical records were inappropriately accessed over a three-year period. The university said it has no indication that the private health information has been used for any unintended purposes. The breach was found Jan. 10…

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CA: Tarleton Medical discloses breach involving protected health information

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Dissent

Note: the following notification is not from the health center at Tarleton State University, but from a family medicine practice in Rancho Mirage, California owned by Harold L. Tarleton, M.D. I am writing to inform you of a data security incident that may have affected your personal information. Tarleton Medical (“TM”) is committed to providing excellence in…

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Stolen personal information found at home of Turlock woman

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Dissent

ModBee reports: Turlock Police found stolen property belonging to dozens of victims when they conducted a probation search on Tuesday at the home of a woman who last month was arrested on suspicion of breaking into a mailbox. Detectives, along with Community Outreach Response and Engagement officers and Stanislaus County probation officers, searched the home of 33-year-old…

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University of Georgia student and employee data found in data dump

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Dissent

What appears to be a combination list from various databases related to the University of Georgia appeared on a public paste site yesterday.  Although the University of Georgia has disclosed a number of breaches in the past six years, none of the breaches this site knows about would account for all the data in this…

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