Matt Brennan reports: Aurora resident Joy Smith was shocked when she opened her mail a few days ago. She had received a letter from the Harrisburg Project, a data storage subcontractor who works with the Illinois State Board of Education. The letter said two laptops had been stolen from a van being used by Harrisburg…
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Hacker LulzSec releases ‘grab bag’ of e-mail addresses, passwords – Writerspace confirms 12,000 are from their database
Hayley Tsukayama reports: Hacker group LulzSec released more than 62,000 e-mail addresses and passwords and encouraged its Twitter followers to try out the sign-in information at sites around the Internet. “These are random assortments from a collection, so don’t ask which site they’re from or how old they are, because we have no idea,” the…
Patients warned of data theft after burglary at Mill Valley doctor’s office
Will Jason reports: Patients at a Mill Valley medical office have been warned that credit card numbers and other personal information may have been compromised after a computer was stolen in a recent burglary. “Many of our patient’s (sic) personal data was stolen including credit card information,” Dr. Morgan Camp wrote in an email sent…
ADP Statement on Security Breach Investigation
Automatic Data Processing, Inc., today announced that it is investigating and taking measures to address the impact of a system intrusion that occurred with one client at Workscape, a recently acquired benefits administration provider. The intrusion, which occurred on a non-payroll legacy platform that is no longer sold by ADP’s benefits administration business, was detected…
(follow-up) Texas man sentenced for hacking into computer servers of local company and NASA
Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, Minnesota, a 26-year-old Texas man was sentenced for hacking into computer networks at a Minnesota business and at NASA. U.S. District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Jeremey Parker, of Houston, Texas, to 24 months in prison on one count of wire fraud. He was indicted in the…
Email error results in some Jackson National Life Insurance members being notified
Jackson National Life Insurance recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on April 12, 2011, an email error resulted in a file being mailed to the wrong broker-deal. The file contained March 2011 data, including names, policy numbers, policy values, transaction dates, and amounts. The file did not include any Social Security numbers…