Confidential information may have been stolen from students at an Upstate school. Investigators say someone swiped two laptop computers over Memorial Day weekend. A thumb drive on one of those computers may have contained personal information about students. The thefts happened at Ravenel Elementary School in Seneca in the Oconee County School District. A window was popped out,…
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HealthCare Partners Notifies Patients of Breach of Unsecured Personal Information
From their press release, dated June 3: HealthCare Partners notified 15,727 patients of a breach of unsecured personal patient protected health information after discovering, on Monday, April 18, 2011, the theft of nineteen new computers from the medical group’s offices at 675 Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena and at 2600 Redondo Avenue in Long Beach. HealthCare…
(update) The number of credit card fraud victims linked to Murphy Oil gas station climbs
WTKR reports that a breach mentioned previously on this blog has claimed more victims: […] Moore’s the latest of 42 folks in Suffolk who have been targeted by credit card thieves who used that information to make ATM withdrawals in California. Gates County North Carolina says 20 people have come forward but a credit union there…
Citibank confirms hacking attack
Hackers have stolen data from thousands of Citibank customers in the US, the bank has confirmed. The breach exposed the names of customers, account numbers and contact information. But other key data, such as date of birth and card security codes were not compromised, the bank said in a statement. Citigroup is the latest in…
NC: Stolen court documents traded for drugs, sheriff says
Matthew Hensley reports: Investigators on Wednesday recovered a cache of illegally obtained court documents that they believe were traded for drugs. They charged three people after a nearly week-long investigation. According to Lt. Becky Weatherman of the Burke County Sheriff’s Office, Eric Lee Hubbard, a night custodian who cleaned in the district attorney’s office at…
LexisNexis notifies New Hampshire that data obtained by client may have been misused
On May 9, LexisNexis notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that personal information accessed from their database by one of their clients may have been misused. From September 10, 2009 through March 2, 2011, Onyx Collections and Locators Services, Inc. in Atlanta had access to the database which contains information such as name, address,…