If you were or a pharmacy patient at Raley’s, Bel Air Mart, or Nob Hill General Store, your information may have been on a laptop that was stolen on September 24. In a notification to the California Attorney General, David Fluitt, Director of Pharmacy Operations for Raley’s, writes that the types of unencrypted information on…
Category: Theft
Fugitive from Kentucky charged with breaching computer network at Community Health
Jesse Wells reports: A fugitive from Kentucky is accused of illegally logging into the computer network at Community North Hospital. The suspect, Charles Thomas, is now facing several charges of computer trespass and resisting law enforcement. Court records claim he logged into the computer network using stolen credentials from a hospital employee. Read more on…
Cash, hard drive, data stolen from DLF1 office, cops suspect insider
HT reports: Burglars broke into the office of a private consultancy company in DLF Phase 1 and allegedly decamped with Rs 4.5 lakh cash, $2,000, silver idols, two Mont Blanc collectible pens, four hard drives, company data, several personal documents and digital signatures of company staffers, police said Thursday. According to police, the incident could…
Hundreds of Canadian federal civil servants lose personal information in data breach
Mike Le Couteur reports: Ottawa police and the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner are investigating a significant data breach in the federal government after a device was stolen from Public Services and Procurement Canada. All 227 employees affected are at Infrastructure Canada, but they weren’t notified until more than two weeks after the breach….
NV: Personal info feared stolen after suspected break-in at Sparks facility for the disabled
Melissa Matheney reports: Capitol police are investigating a possible break-in at Sierra Regional Center in Sparks on August 17th, according to Nikki Haag, a spokesperson for the Division of Aging and Disability Services at the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services. Haag says they are concerned that personal, identifiable information and protected health information…
Seven Charged for Bitcoin Computer Theft
Jelena Ćirić reports: Sindri Þór Stefansson and six others have been charged with the theft of 600 computers equipped for Bitcoin mining, Fréttablaðið reports. Sindri Þór made headlines internationally when he fled from prison earlier this year, where he was being held on suspicion of the robbery. Sindri was later arrested in Amsterdam and brought…