Jacob Miley reports: Parents and workers at a child care centre broken into overnight say they’re disappointed more than anything. About $200 of charity money was taken, along with a back up hard drive with all the children’s names and the business’s financial records on it. Centre director Angela Watson said she was certain the…
Category: Theft
Missing computer prompts Charlottesville elections office changes
Chris Suarez reports: Charlottesville election officials last week reported that after the June 13 primary, they lost a small computer containing names, personal addresses and assigned polling places of voters in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. The information on the computer is pared down from data that is publicly accessible in the city election office. Officials…
NJ: Man stole records from doctors’ storage unit
Associated Press reports: Authorities say a man stole hundreds of medical records from a storage unit used by three doctors and then sold the information. Middlesex County prosecutors say Fernando Rios is charged with identity theft, trafficking in personally identifying information and burglary. Authorities say the 33-year-old Sayreville man broke into a storage facility in…
Visalia woman’s personal information stolen… from her doctor’s car
Not only is the data security problematic, but so is the incident response in this case, as Rich Rodriguez reports: A Visalia woman’s personal information is in the hands of a thief. Robin Walker wasn’t hacked, it was stolen from her doctor. She had knee surgery in July. Days before the operation her doctor’s car…
IT staffers may have compromised sensitive data to foreign intelligence
Paul Sperry reports: Federal authorities are investigating whether sensitive data was stolen from congressional offices by several Pakistani-American tech staffers and sold to Pakistani or Russian intelligence, knowledgeable sources say. What started out 16 months ago as a scandal involving the alleged theft of computer equipment from Congress has turned into a national-security investigation involving…
Vancouver pot dispensary patient data breach highlights regulatory haze
Dan Fumano reports: Sensitive patient data supplied to a Vancouver cannabis dispensary has been either mishandled or — according to the shop’s owner — stolen, a situation again highlighting the cloud of confusion over the regulation of retail pot. […] A tipster recently contacted Postmedia to say he’d found a computer memory card in a…