Hayley Mace of EDP24 reports that the Suffolk Coastal District Council has suspended its work with a contractor, Lalpac, after a laptop containing unencrypted data on 3,000 was stolen from an employee’s home.
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Overseas card fraud scam exposed
Alan Little of BBC News reports: A criminal gang selling UK credit card details stolen from Indian call centres has been exposed by an undercover BBC News investigation. Reporters posing as fraudsters bought UK names, addresses and valid credit card details from a Delhi-based man. The seller denied any wrongdoing and Symantec corporation, from whom…
Walgreens Health Initiative notifies Kentucky retirees of email transmission error
Stephanie Steitzer reports that names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of roughly 28,000 state retirees were e-mailed without the required encryption to the Kentucky Retirement Systems by Walgreens Health Initiative, its pharmacy benefit provider. Affected retirees were notified by letter from WHI, who informed recipients that the mistake was “solely the responsibility of…
Australian hacker sentenced for 3 years
Following up on the story reported last week, Renai LeMay and Alex Serpo of ZDNet Australia report that David Anthony McIntosh, the former CSG employee who crashed several government services at Berrimah Prison, Royal Darwin Hospital and the Supreme Court on May 5 last year and who deleted over 10,000 public servants from the system,…
California Dept. of Real Estate seeks to yank Seaview Financial’s license
Jeff Overley of the Orange County Register reports that the state Department of Real Estate wants to suspend or revoke the license of mortgage broker Seaview Financial for dumping 24 cartons containing confidential and detailed financial records on 350 customers in an elementary school’s bins (see photos). The owner, Paul Henry Reed, had denied wrongdoing…
Japanese court orders ISP to reveal file-leaker’s ID
From Daily Yomiuri Online: The Tokyo District Court has ordered an Internet service provider to reveal the name and address of a person who used file-swapping software to spread leaked private information on the Internet of about 110,000 Kanagawa prefectural high school students in fiscal 2006, it has been learned. IBM Japan Ltd., which had…