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Follow-up: Victim of Port Mann security breach speaks out

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Dissent

More on the Port Mann Bridge breach noted previously on this blog where  someone with a criminal record managed to get a job by false pretenses that enabled him to acquire customers’ personal information, including credit card numbers: One of the Port Mann Bridge users whose tolling accounts were allegedly handled by a convicted fraud…

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Follow-up: Army slow in contacting data breach victims

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Dissent

Joe Gould reports: The Army has been slow to inform 31 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Cross, or their families, that the recipients’ Social Security numbers were posted online. More than a week after the breach was made public, eight recipients of the DSC, the military’s second highest award for…

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B.C.: Security breach triggers warning to some toll bridge users

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Dissent

Jeff Nagel reports: More than 270 drivers who have just registered for the new Port Mann Bridge tolling system are being warned a privacy breach may have compromised their accounts. An unauthorized employee who got the job in the Coquitlam service centre under false pretences and took the registrations of affected drivers by phone was…

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Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross recipients’ Social Security numbers exposed on contractor’s server

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Dissent

Joe Gould reports: A defense contractor’s data breach left vulnerable the Army’s most highly decorated soldiers when a comprehensive awards database — including Social Security numbers — was available online, Army Times has learned. The exposed database contains 31 Social Security numbers for six MoH recipients — including former Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta and Sgt….

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Stolen laptop contained data from Health Care for All and Boston Teacher’s Union

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Dissent

It just takes a moment. On July 17, an independent contractor for Database Designs Associates left his backpack in a relative’s nursing home room when he was asked by staff to step out for a minute. When he returned, the backpack was gone. In it was a laptop containing data from Health Care for All and…

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Data Breach at Boston Water and Sewer Commission

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Dissent

Iran Kantor reports: The Boston Water and Sewer Commission has been informed that a contractor working to upgrade the Commission’s meter reading software is unable to locate a hard drive that may have contained the commission’s water and sewer account information, according to a letter sent out to residents earlier this month. The missing drive…

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