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LA: Teen charged with computer crimes

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Dissent

A Deville teen was arrested Jan. 29 and was charged with several computer crimes, said Rapides Parish Sheriff Chuck Wagner. Christopher Anthony Dauzat Jr., 17, was arrested by the CyberCrimes section of the Rapides Sheriff’s Office Detective Division and charged with computer tampering, computer fraud, cyberstalking and extortion. The charges stem from the electronic hijacking…

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Credit Report Resellers Settle FTC Charges; Security Failures Allowed Hackers to Access Consumers’ Personal Information

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Dissent

As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing campaign to protect consumers’ personal information, three companies whose business is reselling consumers’ credit reports have agreed to settle FTC charges that they did not take reasonable steps to protect consumers’ personal information, failures that allowed computer hackers to access that data. The settlements require the companies…

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Ankle + Foot Center of Tampa Bay breach affecting 156,000 included Social Security Numbers as well as PHI

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Dissent

Now that I have additional information on a hacking incident involving the protected health information (PHI) of 156,000 patients of the Ankle + Foot Center of Tampa Bay, it is clear that this breach belongs on this site. I had previously noted it on PHIprivacy.net on January 29 after it appeared on HHS’s breach tool. At…

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Texas Children’s Hospital informed they may have had security breach

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Dissent

On December 29, Texas Children’s Hospital was notified by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office that its Accounts Payable system may have suffered a security breach.  Names and Social Security Numbers of some employees and vendors who received checks between 1999 and 2011 may have been accessed by an unauthorized third party and the information…

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(follow-up) HuskyDirect.com site still down, some victims report fraud

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Dissent

As a follow-up to a previously reported breach  involving a hack of HuskyDirect.com, there are now some reports suggesting that the data may have been misused. Back on January 11, U.Conn  had posted a notice to its web site: The UConn Co-op was informed by its vendor that there has been a data security incident involving…

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28 million Plenty of Fish users’ personal details hacked – report (updated)

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Dissent

The founder and CEO of dating site Plenty of Fish reports that the site has been hacked and users’ names, email addresses, and passwords may have been acquired. Whether PayPal account information and other personal details were also acquired is uncertain and depends on whose version of the hack you read. It’s also uncertain whether…

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