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University of Oregon archivists who released unvetted records will not be returning to their positions

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Dissent

Ah, another breach as a result of a response to a records request. Laura Frazier reports: The University of Oregon professor who received a trove of unredacted presidential records said he regrets that the incident has led to the discipline of the employees who released the documents. In December the University Archives fulfilled a records request…

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MI: Potential data breach at unnamed merchant

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Dissent

Upper Michigan’s Source reports: Some Peninsula Federal Credit Union members had their debit cards cancelled as a precaution today. According to bank officials, the suspected data breach was at a local merchant. Read more on uppermichiganssource.com. Okay, not much there, I grant you, but it was only because I looked at that story that I…

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House Dem to introduce separate data breach bill

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Dissent

Elise Viebeck reports: A co-chairman of the House Cybersecurity Caucus is planning to introduce a data breach bill that would not create federal security standards for private companies. Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) announced that he will release two cyber-related measures on Thursday: one to require companies to disclose data breaches to affected customers within 30…

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Allegations of Indirect Access Held Insufficient To State Claim Under CFAA – Court

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Dissent

David J. Clark of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., writes: On March 20, 2015, a California federal court rejected an expansive reading of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) urged by two plaintiff corporations that sought to hold a competitor and two of its directors liable under the CFAA, under an agency theory, for the actions…

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FL: Federal Jury Finds Husband And Wife Guilty Of Operating A Clinic To Defraud Medicare

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Dissent

Here’s another case where patients knowingly participated in a Medicare fraud scheme, so I wouldn’t consider them victims (even though law enforcement never seems to prosecute them as criminals or co-conspirators). I think that the real victims here were the doctors whose identity information was misused to support the scheme and the insurance carrier who paid…

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SC: Ex-Williamsburg County sheriff sentenced in $11 million ID theft scam

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to a case  that had puzzled me when I first noted it in September last year as it involved the fraudulent creation of ID theft victim reports to get Equifax to forgive debts. People had no idea that victim reports were being created in their names. Rod Overton reports: United States Attorney Bill…

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