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Yet another Health Net breach raises disturbing questions

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Dissent

More is starting to come out about the Health  Net breach involving missing server drives that we first learned of earlier today in a press release from CT’s Attorney General. His press release was followed by a press release from Health Net. Now a few more details have emerged: Kathy Robertson of the Sacramento Business…

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TX: Confidential tax documents litter neighborhood

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Dissent

Jonathan Betz of WFAA in Texas reports that a Fort Worth neighborhood was littered with dozens of tax documents containing names, addresses, and Social Security Numbers. Nearly all said they had their taxes prepared at a North Dallas tax service. An employee there told News 8 he was aware of the security breach, and blamed…

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Credit unions issue warnings on debit cards

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Dissent

There’s been a breach somewhere…. but we don’t know which merchant yet. King Ring and Bill Fortier report from Massachusetts: Customers of two local credit unions are being warned to keep a close eye on accounts linked to their debit cards after some apparently fraudulent activity was noticed. Both GFA Federal Credit Union in Gardner…

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Identity data of Texas Children’s doctors used in scam (updated)

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Dissent

In a follow-up to a breach reported last month on this blog, Brian Rogers reports: A Pearland man has been charged with identity theft in a scheme that used Social Security numbers of doctors and vendors at Texas Children’s Hospital to open more than 100 electricity accounts, prosecutors said. […] In court today, Assistant Harris…

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(Update) Birthdates, social security numbers of 45 Eastern Michigan University students stolen

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Dissent

David Jesse has some more details on an Eastern Michigan University breach reported previously on this blog: Forty-five Eastern Michigan University students had their names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers provided to a third party by two student employees, the school said. EMU spokesman Walter Kraft would not say Thursday whether the employees…

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Feds: Ring bought stolen credit card numbers, spent thousands in Central Florida

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Dissent

Amy Pavuk reports: Secret Service agents say seven members of a Central Florida crime ring spent hundreds of thousands of dollars with stolen credit card numbers, which were purchased over the Internet from people who hacked into business computers and obtained the data. […] The local Secret Service investigation began in September, when an agent…

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