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Lost in transit: Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing notifies over 3,500 of missing disk

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Dissent

Michael Booth reports: The state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing has lost thousands of applicant names on a computer disk for the second time in a year, triggering a public notice under federal privacy rules. HCPF officials said the names of 3,590 medical-aid applicants were on the lost disk, though the data did…

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Stolen Pfizer laptop contained personal information on employees and others

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Dissent

A laptop stolen from a Pfizer employee’s car in April contained personal information on employees, health care professionals, service providers, and customers. In some cases, employees’ Social Security Numbers were included as well as names, addresses, and telephone numbers. It is not clear what types of data were involved for health care professionals or customers….

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KY: Thieves steal credit card information from local restaurant

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Dissent

Dave Spencer reports: The owner of Smashing Tomato, an Italian restaurant in Lexington, says they were recently informed by the Secret Service about stolen credit card information. Carolyn Toyoda, the co-owner of the locally run restaurant, says the call came as quite a shock. Toyoda says, “This is my family’s business, and we take it…

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Local Banks Sort Out Security Breach

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Dissent

Mallory Cooke reports from Arkansas: Fort Smith banks rush to get customers new debit cards after personal bank account information is stolen. “It wouldn’t work,” said Stacy Gustafson, “It said I’d exceeded the number of transactions.” Gustafson tried to get cash at an Arvest Bank ATM Monday, but could not. She said, “They told me…

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Chinga La Migra Hacks Arizona Law Enforcement for Third Unprecedented Time

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Dissent

Stephen Lemons writes: Arizona law enforcement cannot be sleeping well tonight, with the keyboard anarchists of “Chinga La Migra” (“Fuck the Border Patrol,” in English) claiming yet another hack with a corresponding data dump of local cops’ personal info. I only say “claiming” because I’m still accessing the torrent. (Hey, I never said I was Julian…

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DropBox CEO: Lone hacker downloaded data from ‘fewer than a hundred’ accounts

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Dissent

Jason D. O’Grady reports that some accounts were accessed during a recent DropBox security snafu: Earlier this week, we wrote to tell you about a security lapse at Dropbox. Today I am writing to tell you something I never expected to tell a customer. During our forensic analysis, we discovered that an extremely small number…

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