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TX: Rash of local ID thefts reported

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Dissent

Here we go again. A rash of reports of identity theft in Huntsville has prompted local authorities to call in the FBI and Secret Service to help track down the thieves. Nearly 30 cases of identity theft have been reported in Walker County over the past few weeks — the worst in Huntsville’s history, Police…

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Computer-Hacking Group Targets Apple In Latest Attack

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Dissent

Well, by now it may not be their latest attack, as the news report by Ian Sherr was published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal: A group of computer hackers on Sunday posted a document it claimed contains usernames and passwords for an Apple Inc. server, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised…

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Indiana Attorney General reaches settlement with WellPoint in consumer data breach

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Dissent

Health insurer WellPoint Inc. will pay the State a $100,000 settlement over a data breach where the personal information of thousands of WellPoint customers was potentially accessible via the Internet. The settlement resolves a lawsuit that Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office filed under a new data-breach notification law passed in 2009. “This case should…

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[corrected] Missing Plymouth State University backup drive contained Social Security Numbers of 1,059 students

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Dissent

On May 18, Plymouth State University noticed that an external hard drive that they used for backup purposes was missing. One of the files on the drive was a spreadsheet that contained  the names and Social Security numbers of 1,059 students enrolled in the teacher education and certification program between 2005 and 2010. As the…

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(follow-up) JetBlue notification letter indicates no evidence that any employee data accessed

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Dissent

As reported previously on this blog, JetBlue had a security breach involving the insertion of malware on their system. Last week, the airline notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office about the incident. Their letter was somewhat imprecise about when they were informed of the problem by a federal law enforcement agency, saying only that “Earlier…

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FedEx subsidiary notifies employees that the ADP/Workscape breach exposed their Social Security Numbers and direct deposit account information

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Dissent

FedEx Smartpost (FXG), a subsidiary of FedEx Ground Package System, was  affected by the ADP/Workscape breach reported a few weeks.  At the time, ADP had indicated that the intrusion affecting Workscape only affected one client as far as they knew.  FXG appears to be that client. According to a letter sent by FXG’s lawyers to…

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