The New Zealand AIDS Foundation has apologised after it accidentally shared members’ email addresses in its Christmas e-cards. “The New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) genuinely regrets that we made a human error when sending out our Christmas e-cards and mistakenly disclosed our member’s email addresses by failing to BCC all the recipients,” Executive Director Shaun…
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VA: Hacker Sentenced For Breaking Into Medical School Application Computers
Bosung Shim, 24, of Rockville, MD, was sentenced today to three months in prison, followed by seven months in community confinement and three years of supervised release, for unauthorized access of a protected computer. In addition, Shim was required to pay $31,653.24 in restitution to the victim and forfeit the computer equipment used in the…
Macon woman sentenced in identity theft scheme
Tom George reports: A Macon woman was sentenced in federal court for her role in a identity theft scheme. 38-year-old Rhonda Everett plead guilty to conspiracy to commit fraudulent claims, identity theft, and receiving stolen government property. In 2012, Everett was caught in a sting operation and admitted to obtaining personal information from 35 people…
UK: Foyle Women’s Aid undertaking and follow-up
I guess the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) doesn’t publicly post all undertakings, as we are first finding out about an August undertaking in November, when a follow-up was conducted and disclosed. In June 2012, the ICO learned that a folder belonging to a Criminal Justice Support worker employed by Foyle Women’s Aid, was left in a…
Update: About 6,700 ESB customers affected by Loyaltybuild data breach
Loyaltybuild really needs to get ahead of the story instead of allowing the media to leak out each new part of its breach. Now we learn that the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) in Ireland was also impacted. The Irish Times reports: The personal information of about 6,700 ESB customers is now known to have been…
Update: Four arrested for LIRR ticket vending machine skimmers
Lyndsay McCabe reports that four Romanians have been arrested in the case of skimmers and cameras attached to Long Island Railroad ticket vending machines: The ticket vending machine scammers had been using pinhole cameras placed strategically at TVMs to read information entered by commuters, as well as plastic credit card skimmers placed over the bank…