Andy Matarrese reports: An almost-new computer was stolen from the FISH food bank on Water Street on Tuesday afternoon, according to staff. Roger McCune, the food bank’s executive director, said staff members and volunteers were downstairs with two or three families who were getting food when the computer was taken from the building’s offices upstairs…
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Congress aides warned of email login security breach after @OpLastResort tweets notice of hack
While many of us were watching the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on FISA, @OpLastResort tweeted: While the House Judiciary Committee held #FISAOversight hearings today, we’ve been doing some oversight of the House pic.twitter.com/obWimEBjTf — OpLastResort (@OpLastResort) July 17, 2013 Today, Richard Cowan reports: Congressional aides in the Senate and House of Representatives said on…
18,000 Social Security numbers printed on outside of U.Va. student mailings
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports: The Social Security numbers of 18,700 University of Virginia students appeared on the address labels of health insurance brochures mailed across the country in the latest in a string of breaches at the state’s flagship university. Read more on their site.
TN: Another hack involving a restaurant
WBIR reports: Local and federal investigators are looking into who stole credit card information from several customers at a Farragut restaurant. Workers with Wild Wing Cafe say a hacker broke through their system and stole credit card numbers. They say it only affected a small number of customers who were in the restaurant last week….
NASA ARC Memo: Breach of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) – July 1, 2013
Status Report Source: Ames Research Center Subject: Breach of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) – July 1, 2013 From: ARC-HR Date: July 10, 2013 On Monday July 1, 2013 an email message was sent to all Civil Servants titled “Supreme Court Decision on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Federal Employee Benefits.” The email was…
NY: State worker sent 17,743 Medicaid records to personal account
Jon Campbell reports: A state employee was placed on leave after emailing thousands of private Medicaid records to his personal email account, state Medicaid Inspector General James Cox announced today. The security breach happened on Oct. 12 of last year, when the employee — who worked for Cox’s office — sent 17,743 records to the…