Here’s a case where the misuse of a law enforcement database may have added to the sentencing. Matt Okamus provides a follow-up to a breach previously mentioned on this blog: A former Montgomery Police Department officer was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison with two years of supervised release Wednesday, according to U.S. Attorney…
Category: Breach Incidents
Sony did not breach Australian Privacy law, says Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim
Chris Griffith reports: SONY Computer Entertainment Australia did not breach the Privacy Act when it fell victim to a cyber-attack, Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has found. In a report released this afternoon, Mr Pilgrim found “no evidence that Sony intentionally disclosed any personal information to a third party”. “Rather, its Network Platform was hacked into,”…
TRICARE discloses SAIC breach: stolen backup tapes held data on 4.9 million (updated)
TRICARE, the health care program serving Uniformed Service members, retirees and their families worldwide, issued the following public statement on their web site: STATEMENT On September 14, 2011, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) reported a data breach involving personally identifiable and protected health information (PII/PHI) impacting an estimated 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients. The information…
UKChatterbox urges password change following hack attack
John Leyden reports: Popular IRC service UKChatterbox is advising users to change their passwords following a series of hacks which culminated in an attack that may have compromised user details. The password reset follows on from a succession of outages – previously attributed to maintenance upgrades – dating back to the start of the summer. In a notice to…
Admitted Countrywide data thief gets 8 months in prison (updated)
In a breach case that was first revealed in August 2008, a former Countrywide employee has been sentenced: A former employee of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. was sentenced Tuesday to eight months in prison and ordered to repay $1.2 million after pleading guilty to downloading millions of borrower files on thumb drives and selling…
DeKalb jailer arrested for stealing inmates’ identities
Christian Boone reports: A second-generation DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office jailer has been arrested and charged with using inmates’ Social Security numbers to file false tax returns and pocketing the refunds. It’s unknown how many inmates were compromised by Adriara Addison’s alleged crimes, said DeKalb sheriff’s spokesman Adrion Bell. Read more on AJC. WSBTV adds more…