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MN: Former DNR employee enters plea in driver’s license snooping case

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Dissent

Nicole Norfleet reports: Former state employee John Hunt entered an Alford plea Tuesday to charges of breaching thousands of driver’s license files while he worked for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). During a plea settlement hearing in Ramsey County District Court, Hunt admitted that there was sufficient evidence for him to be found guilty…

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TX: 14,000 Midland ISD students risk identity theft because of sloppy security

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Dissent

From the oh-FFS-dept.: AP reports: The identity information of 14,000 past and present Midland Independent School District students has been compromised by a computer theft. Midland school Superintendent Ryder Warren says a laptop computer and external hard drive containing the information was stolen from the back of a district administrator’s car on Jan. 23. He…

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Target faces second credit union class action lawsuit

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Dissent

David Morrison reports: A second credit union has filed a legal complaint against Target over losses it said it sustained as a result of the firm’s card data breach late last year. The $38 million First Choice Federal Credit Union, headquartered in New Castle, Pa., filed its complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District…

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Data for 685 Fairfax students mistakenly posted online

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Dissent

T. Rees Shapiro reports that Fairfax County School District has had yet another breach involving student data: Personal information for hundreds of Fairfax County public school students was mistakenly posted on the school system’s Web site, exposing their school identification numbers, birth dates, home addresses and phone numbers in what parents described as a breach…

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Provider of Medical Transcript Services Settles FTC Charges That It Failed to Adequately Protect Consumers’ Personal Information

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Dissent

Press release from the FTC, followed by my comments: A company that provides medical transcription services has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its inadequate data security measures unfairly exposed the personal information of thousands of consumers on the open Internet, in some instances including consumers’ medical histories and examination notes. In its complaint…

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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Campers’ information stolen by camp employee

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Dissent

Nathan Brown reports that a Town of Rosendale man (in upstate New York) has been charged with selling the personal information of campers and their parents at Camp Rov Tov, Rov Tov is a boys’ camp affiliated with a Satmar Jewish school in Brooklyn; they have camps in Dairyland, Kerhonkson, Napanoch and Ellenville in Ulster…

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