The Associated Press reports: The names of confidential drug informants, home addresses of sheriff’s deputies and troves of other sensitive data were made public for months because of a mistake by an employee of Mesa County’s technology department, officials said. Thousands of the internal records were accessible on the Internet starting in April until the…
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FL: Hampton Inn reports hacker modified customer surveys
Dennis Culver reports on a hack that probably won’t get prosecuted: The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Thursday reported theft of intellectual property at the Hampton Inn at 11281 Summerlin Square Dr. The complainant, Esther Gayfield, told investigators an unknown suspect had hacked into the hotel’s computer system network and modified customer surveys…
WI: Former jail worker is accused of misconduct
Audits/checking logs works. I’m surprised that the employee was charged with a felony, though. Matthew Perenchio reports: A former Jackson County Jail worker has been charged with felony misconduct after being accused of improperly running criminal background checks on herself and her half-brother. Jennifer L. Stanley, 34, of Onalaska also faces a misdemeanor computer crime…
(Update) ALDI breach affected 17,000 New York residents
Back in October, I noted that the ALDI breach had affected 8,000 Maryland residents. New York State’s breach logs for October, posted online, indicates that ALDI had reported on October 1 that 17,000 NYS residents were affected. Given that the breach affected customers in 11 states and there are 25,000 affected in just two of…
(follow-up) Man admits tax scam using stolen patient data
Giovanna Fabiano reports the latest developments in a fraud scheme that victimized some of the most fragile among us: A(n Englewood) city man pleaded guilty Monday to participating in a scheme to file false tax returns, using information stolen from adult and pediatric cancer patients, among other victims. Jason Eaton, 28, told U.S. District Court…
Records of 8,300 former University of Arizona students are missing
Becky Pallack of the Arizona Daily Star reports: A missing hard drive prompted University of Arizona officials to notify 8,300 former students that their identities could be at risk. The external hard drive went missing from a secure records room in Old Main in October or earlier, and it could have been lost when the…