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CA: “Embarrassing” Files Found Outside Blockbuster

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Dissent

Bob Hansen reports: The Blockbuster store in Mission Valley was being cleaned out for the last time. The video store chain is in bankruptcy and one worker was finishing up at the store. That’s when privacy rights expert Beth Givens happened to walk by and she was shocked by what she found. “A box called…

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Hackers may have accessed more than 25,000 South Carolina students’ personal info

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Dissent

The identity of thousands of students and teachers has potentially been compromised after officials with the Lancaster County School District say a hacker was able to access their system. According to school officials, the hackers were able to hack into the district’s system by monitoring district computers and capturing keystrokes to get passwords. Those passwords…

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GA: Gwinnett ID Theft Case Could Have 5,800 Victims

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Dissent

I wonder how many people using check-cashing services or walk-in tax preparer services ever consider whether the person they’re doing business with might be an ID thief who’s using the business as a lucrative source of identity information. Consider this case in Georgia: Duluth police arrested a woman who they said could be a link…

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OH: COTC students’ personal information left unsecured

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Dissent

Jessie Balmert reports: An error sent more that 600 Central Ohio Technical College students’ personal information to storage at Apple Tree Auction Center, where they were left unsecured for less than 24 hours. On March 10, the Student Records Management Office was moving to another location in the same building when an enclosed file cabinet…

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MA: Computer access breach exposed UMass Memorial pay stub data

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Dissent

Lee Hammel reports: Personal pay stub information of some UMass Memorial Healthcare employees was subject to unauthorized access for five months. The organization learned March 10 that at 10 kiosks where employees could view their pay stub information, and also at shared workstations, subsequent users were able to access the information of previous users, according…

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Hacker sentenced to two years in prison for unleashing virus to attack media outlets naming him

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Dissent

A computer programmer was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for launching a virus that infected approximately 100,000 computers around the world and directed them to attack media outlets that republished stories that mentioned him, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. In September 2010, a jury returned a guilty verdict against Bruce Raisley, 48,…

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