David Navetta comments on the litigation involving the University of Utah, Perpetual Storage, and Colorado Casualty Insurance Co. You may wish for a scorecard to keep all the players straight: It was recently reported that an insurance carrier (Colorado Casualty Insurance Co.) denied coverage (and filed a lawsuit) for the $3.3 million in costs the…
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(UPDATE) Over 21,000 affected by DentaQuest breach in March still have not been notified
Cross-posted from phiprivacy.net: From the what-took-so-long dept: On May 11, this site reported that the New Mexico Human Services Department had just revealed that a laptop theft that occurred on March 20 affected about 9,600 people. The laptop was stolen from the car of an employee of West Monroe Partners, a subcontractor for DentaQuest, the…
In: BPO employee held for data theft
A young computer engineer was nabbed by the company authorities for data theft from the company computer and uploading it on another data sharing site for future use. He was nabbed by city cyber cell officials on Saturday. According to cyber cell officials, they had received a complaint from Satellite police station officials where Anand…
Digital River sues over data breach
Dan Browning reports: A massive data theft from the e-commerce company Digital River Inc. has led investigators to hackers in India and a 20-year-old in New York who allegedly tried to sell the information to a Colorado marketing firm for half a million dollars. The Eden Prairie company obtained a secret court order last month…
HMRC mails wrong private info to 50,000 19,000 taxpayers
John Oates reports on another black eye for HMRC: Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs apologised today for sending out private information to 50,000 tax credit recipients. One taxpayer who contacted The Register said: “We received our tax credit notice with our National Insurance details but on the back were two strangers’ work, childcare and pay…
Arlington Security Guard, Who Hacked into Hospital’s Computer System, Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges
Robert Wilonsky of the Dallas Observer reports that the Carrell Memorial Clinic hacker who stupidly posted videos of himself committing his crimes on You Tube has pleaded guilty. Although the case was previously covered on DataBreaches.net, Wilonsky’s blog entry provides a number of background links for those who want more of the earlier coverage, as…