There’s nothing much new in here if you’ve followed this stuff for years, but some folks still need a reminder and wake-up call not to tolerate this type of insider wrongdoing: U.S. police officers in Denver, Colorado are only lightly punished if caught using confidential criminal databases for personal reasons like finding out a woman’s…
Category: U.S.
Authorities: List contains information of Minnesota officers
AP reports: Authorities said Tuesday that they are investigating after a list containing the personal information of several Minnesota police officers was posted online. The existence of the list was first reported Monday by the news site Vocativ, which says its analysts discovered that the names, phone numbers and addresses of 36 officers had been…
Riverside woman to be sentenced for fraud, ID theft of 50 medical patients
Debbie L. Sklar reports: A Riverside woman is expected to be sentenced Monday to at least two years in federal prison for stealing the private information of more than 50 patients of a Long Beach residential medical facility. Bridgette Jackson, 45, was convicted by a Los Angeles federal jury in January of conspiring to possess more…
Stolen laptop with patient info returned; no evidence ever powered on
Wow. You don’t see this type of thing too often. Premier Healthcare has an important update to their breach notification of March 3 that affected 206,000 patients. From their statement today: Missing Premier Healthcare Laptop Recovered Last week, Premier Healthcare, LLC, a Bloomington, Indiana, based physician-led multispecialty healthcare provider group, reported that a laptop computer had been…
BREAKING: FBI raids former sheriff’s deputy over hack, data dump on PBSOTalk.com (Update 1)
Last week, DataBreaches.net broke the story of how some south Florida agencies’ databases were still accessible to a Russian known online as “BadVolf” (or “BadWolf”). BadVolf, a self-identified friend of Mark Dougan, claims to have previously hacked and dumped thousands of confidential records of judges, police officers, and other law enforcement officials in retaliation for how the Palm…
Non-profit Code.org notifies volunteers whose email addresses were exposed
From Code.org’s blog, yesterday: Some volunteer email addresses compromised 🙁 On Friday night we discovered and fixed an error in the Code.org site that allowed access to our volunteer email addresses. This wasn’t a case of hackers breaching our security systems, rather it was our mistake of leaving volunteer email addresses accessible via the web…