Associated Press reports that the personal information of all licensed medical doctors in Puerto Rico was acquired in a recent hack. They report that since the hack, doctors have been getting harassing emails, but it’s not clear from their reporting as to what information was accessed or acquired in the intrusion, other than the statement from…
Category: U.S.
Crime victims’ and witnesses’ sensitive information on devices stolen from researcher’s university office
Brian Bakst of AP reports: A University of Minnesota law professor has apologized to violent crime victims and witnesses after a computer with sensitive information of nearly 300 people was stolen from his office, but he said Friday that there’s no indication the thief has accessed the data. Criminologist Barry Feld, a prominent juvenile justice…
Conspirators testify in Ramsey County identity theft trial
Chao Xiong reports the follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: A former state employee accused of stealing identities from a state database and other sources traded that information for methamphetamine, one of her conspirators testified Thursday. Roxanne K. Deflorin, 50, is on trial this week in Ramsey County District Court for the…
Worried about Target getting your information if you sign up for the free credit monitoring with Experian? Don’t be.
I’ve seen a number of comments around the web from individuals who are concerned about signing up for the free credit monitoring by Experian that’s been offered by Target. So I contacted Experian and asked them if they share registration information with Target. Here’s the reply I got from Greg Young, Director, Public Relations of Experian Consumer…
Oops – some Burlington residents’ SSN exposed on the city’s website
The City of Burlington in Vermont is notifying some of its residents that their names and Social Security numbers had not been redacted from their tax abatement requests that were submitted to the city’s board and uploaded to the city’s website as part of a clickable agenda for the meeting. The information was uploaded on…
Credit Card Receipts from Bay Area Old Navy Store Mistakenly Shipped to Shopper in Upstate New York
Ah, that pesky human error strikes again. Marianne Favro reports: Attention, Old Navy shoppers: Your credit card receipt, with full account number and signature, may have ended up in a random mailbox in Upstate New York. Anita Vogel lives in West Seneca, New York, near Buffalo. She recently received a package in the mail containing…