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Tempering justice with mercy?

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Dissent

A number of people have commented on Twitter and on this blog that the young man who was arrested for breaching the Houston Healthcare database should have been thanked and/or hired. If this were 1983, I might agree with them, but I found myself taking a harder line about the breach as it was not…

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Nigerian national sentenced to 102 months for role in airline ticket scam

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Dissent

Ademola Ismaila Adegoke, 43, of Accra, Ghana, was sentenced this week to 102 months in prison for using stolen credit card numbers to steal more than $400,000 from U.S. citizens. U.S. District Court Judge Liam O’Grady also ordered Adegoke to serve two years of supervised release following his prison term. The defendant has agreed to…

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County employee resigns after laptop stolen

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Dissent

When the economy’s tough, people generally do not want to resign from their jobs, but in the wake of an embarrassing data breach,  Carol Vaughn reports: The Accomack County employee whose county-issued laptop computer was stolen from a Las Vegas hotel room earlier this month has resigned. The information technology department employee, who was supervised…

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MetLife reports employee snooped on files of public figures

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Dissent

MetLife, who reported in August that an employee had been sharing disability insurance applications with an unauthorized individual, recently received more bad news. According to a letter they sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the third-party provider whose database they use to run searches on individuals in the course of their business recently…

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Midtown Motors’ login to TransUnion compromised, credit reports accessed

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Dissent

Credit reporting agency TransUnion has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that compromise of customer Midtown Motors’ login information resulted in the unauthorized access to an unspecified number of individuals’ credit reports. In their letter, TransUnion states that the compromise was no fault of the customer’s (then how did it happen?), and TransUnion will…

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What’s the actual cost of a FACTA breach?

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Dissent

We’ve seen some impressive figures for the cost of data breaches, but what’s the cost of a FACTA breach? Has anyone seen any analysis of actual costs in resolved or settled cases? Back in May 2009,  Olive Garden settled a class action lawsuit stemming from alleged violations of FACTA.   Because receipts included more than…

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