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IL: Court documents left in plain view

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Dissent

From the aw-c’mon-already-folks dept., Cynthia M. Ellis reports: Officials said they are changing how they dispose of public records after court documents were found in a recycling bin earlier this week behind the Madison County Wood River Facility. A Telegraph reporter received information Monday night about files found in an open bin behind the county…

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OHSU says data about some patients and employees stolen in a home burglary

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Dissent

Crossposted from PHIprivacy.net: Oregon Health & Science University Hospital officials have posted a notice on their web site. While most of the notice concerns patient information, it appears that almost 200 employees had their Social Security Numbers on the stolen USB drive. OHSU has set up a toll free number to respond to patient questions. Information stored…

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Dropbox Reports User Accounts Were Hijacked, Adds New Security Features

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Dissent

Rip Empson reports: Several weeks ago, reports started to trickle out that a number of Dropbox users were under attack from spam. Since then, Dropbox has been investigating those attacks (with some help from a third-party) and today gave the first update on the progress, saying that some accounts were indeed accessed by hackers, but…

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Data breaches up 19 percent, GAO reports

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Dissent

Federal data breaches jumped 19 percent last year, the Government Accountability Office said Tuesday. There were roughly 13,000 incidents reported by agencies in 2010 involving unauthorized disclosures of personally identifiable information — last year, that figure shot up to 15,500, Greg Wilshusen, GAO’s director of information security issues, told the Senate subcommittee on government management…

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Hackers hit Williston store

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Dissent

Jennifer Reading reports: WILLISTON, Vt. – “His card was used at Publix supermarkets in Boynton Beach, Florida-area 14 times in one day,” Richmond Police Chief Alan Buck said. In the last 48 hours, Chief Buck has been flooded with complaints about credit and debit card fraud. Vermont victims report their accounts are being wiped out…

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Two sentenced for role in Michaels Stores data theft and misuse

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Dissent

Two southern California men were sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland for their roles in a scheme to defraud nearly 1,000 debit card holders by using stolen bank account information to withdraw money from ATMs. Eduard Arakelyan, 21, and Arman Vardanyan, 23, were each sentenced yesterday to…

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