James Jeffery, who pleaded guilty to hacking the British Pregnancy Advisory Service in March, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in jail.
Category: Breach Incidents
Why MilitarySingles.com’s denial of breach fails to convince me (updated)
Some breach reports really bother me. The MilitarySingles.com situation is a case in point. Despite their denial of any breach, what I saw in the two data dumps leaves me with the nagging suspicion that they were hacked. And so I contacted them again almost two weeks ago, following their last statement, to ask to…
Do red flags on credit files really protect us?
Jason Proctor reports: A Burnaby, B.C., man who spent the past year besieged by identity thieves says RCMP have linked his case to a major arrest. Paul Wright says criminals have repeatedly managed to change personal information on his TransUnion Credit Bureau profile. One of the addresses placed on his file was the site of…
Case Western Reserve notifies 600 alumni of data breach involving Social Security numbers
Earlier today, a breach report was submitted to DataLossDB.org involving Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. The April 4th notice, submitted by one of those affected, indicated that 600 people had names and Social Security numbers on two laptops that had been stolen. Although the university is offering affected individuals free identity theft protection services,…
Utah Dept. of Health hacked, over 500,000 700,000 affected and the number’s growing?
Marjorie Cortez provides an update on a breach that started out bad enough last week, and just got a lot worse: Some 280,000 people had their Social Security numbers listed in state health data stolen from a computer server last week, state officials announced Monday, calling the data breach the largest in state history. Another…
Follow-up: Staff won’t face discipline after UVic private data stolen
The president of the University of Victoria says nobody will lose their job after administrative staff failed to properly secure and store all employees’ sensitive information prior to it being stolen during a January break-in. Nearly 12,000 employees past and present at UVic had their names, social insurance numbers and banking details taken when an…