Wow. Steve Zabroski reports: East Chicago – Indiana State Police arrived at the East Chicago Public Library on Friday afternoon to investigate the reported theft of computer hard drives holding all the library’s records, but the library’s former director said nobody told him about missing equipment. Manuel “Manny” Montalvo was abruptly fired by library trustees…
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UK: Computer with details of hundreds of children stolen in youth club burglary
A computer containing the names, ages, addresses and medical conditions of hundreds of children has been stolen in a raid on a youth club.Details of up to 700 youths are stored on the computer belonging to Sparks Project in Courtway Road, Orchard Park, north Hull. Tony Fee, who launched the youth project in 2006, has…
SpamIt, Glavmed Pharmacy Networks Exposed
Brian Krebs writes: An organized crime group thought to include individuals responsible for the notorious Storm and Waledac worms generated more than $150 million promoting rogue online pharmacies via spam and hacking, according to data obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com. In June 2010, an anonymous source using the assumed name “Despduck” began an e-mail correspondence with a key anti-spam…
Sydney Festival in privacy glitch
Luke Hopewell reports: Organisers behind the annual Sydney Festival have inadvertently committed a privacy breach by sending an email to users that displayed the contents of its mailing list. The email contains the email addresses of around 130 people who registered for a festival mailing list, some from government departments, Sony Music, JP Morgan and…
Papers with sensitive info found blowing around Winnipeg
Pieces of paper with the names of former clients of the Salvation Army and information about past incidents connected with the charity were found on a Winnipeg street Wednesday – raising concerns about privacy. The documents from 1999 somehow ended up on Isabel Street near Ross Avenue on Wednesday afternoon. […] The documents belong to…
2,000 affected in Fine Gael data breach (update2)
Last week, I posted a news story on PogoWasRight.org that discussed whether the web site of an Irish political party, Fine Gael, might be breaching privacy laws. In a separate development, it seems that the site has now had a security breach: Fine Gael has confirmed that the contact details of just under 2,000…