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Company responsible for MPS social security mistake explains

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Dissent

Last week, John Cuoco reported that approximately 6,000  Milwaukee Public School District employees found their Social Security numbers exposed in plain view on mailings due to an error by a third party vendor providing prescription drug coverage for MPS Medicare D recipients.  Yesterday, he updated his reporting to identify the vendor: The Milwaukee Public School District…

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City Of Wichita Website Hit By Hackers Over The Weekend

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Dissent

KAKE reports: The City of Wichita says it’s [sic] website was hacked over the weekend, compromising the personal information of 29,000 vendors and employees. In a news release, city officials say hackers may have gained access to Social Security numbers, taxpayer identification numbers and banking information of vendors and employees who were reimbursed by the…

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Your PII were lost in the mail – Clinical Reference Laboratory (update1)

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Dissent

Clinical Reference Laboratory provides lab tests for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance policy applicants. On September 17, they learned that a billing sent to MassMutual on September 6 with applicants’ names, dates of birth, type of lab test performed, and/or partial or full Social Security numbers had been damaged in transit with  USPS and some pages…

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Visa’s fines are punitive, not compensatory – Genesco

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Dissent

More on Genesco’s lawsuit over Visa’s fines following a data breach: Jeffrey Benzing reports that Genesco is arguing that Visa’s own internal documents show that they view breach fines as penalties and not compensatory. Genesco argues that the fines are therefore unenforceable under California law.  Read more about their legal argument on Main Justice. Previous…

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Thirteen men involved in Operation Payback indicted

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dissent

Gil Aegerter reports: Thirteen alleged members of the computer hacking group Anonymous were indicted Thursday on conspiracy charges accusing them of coordinated cyberattacks on anti-piracy groups, government agencies, credit card companies and others, dubbed Operation Payback. The federal grand jury indictment, filed in federal court in Alexandria, Va., alleges that the 13 used distributed denial…

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That was quick…

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dissent

The Miami Herald reports that it took a federal jury less than one hour to convict a former Miami police officer who misused the D.A.V.I.D. driver’s license database to obtain identity information for a tax refund fraud scheme.  Malinsky Bazile had been arrested in March.

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