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Category: U.S.

City laptop with residents’ data stolen from library

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dissent

The New Haven Register reports on a laptop theft that occurred on May 23: A laptop used by an Elderly Services Specialist to input data for the Rent Rebate program was stolen recently from the Mitchell Branch Library, but there is no reason to believe anyone has accessed the data stored on the laptop, city…

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No evidence that Pharmacist.com hack involved patient records (updated)

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dissent

As I had suggested previously in several tweets, those involved in the hack of Pharmacist.com may not have understood some of the data were that they acquired in the hack.  They certainly didn’t understand the nature of their target. In a statement disclosing the hack, reproduced on CyberWarNews.info, the hackers had written: In an effort…

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TN: Personal Records Found in Dumpster

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Dissent

Some breaches make me want to curse. This news report out of Sevierville, Sevier County in Tennessee makes me want to yell, “When the hell are businesses going to start getting fined for just dumping unshredded files with PII?” … Kim Pierce runs a video store in Sevierville and was shocked at what she found…

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University of Virginia gaffe exposes student applications with Social Security Numbers

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Dissent

Ted Strong reports: Roughly 300 transcripts, some containing complete Social Security numbers, were accessible through a University of Virginia website on Tuesday morning due to an as-yet unspecified human error, university officials have confirmed. The incident came to light when a student conducting a Google search for an image of himself found his transcript online….

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Employee of IT contractor sentenced to 57 months in prison for stealing info on law and CPA firms’ clients

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Dissent

SACRAMENTO, CA—Michael Garcia, 39, of Stockton, was sentenced on May 31, 2012  by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 57 months in prison for fraud in connection with computers and in connection with an access device, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. According to court documents, Garcia was employed as a…

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U. Nebraska breach also affected state colleges

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Dissent

Oh ho… so it wasn’t just U. of Nebraska affected by the hack reported May 23. The Lincoln Journal Star reports: Nebraska State College System officials have been notified that their records were included in a security breach reported last week by the University of Nebraska in late May. The State College System and NU…

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