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Hacker may have accessed database of Louisiana EMTs

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dissent

Marsha Shuler reports: Some 56,000 emergency medical technicians were advised this week that a hacker may have gained access to personal information about them contained in a state licensing database. The state Department of Health and Hospitals sent letters to the emergency medical technicians, notifying them of the incident that occurred Sept. 17. […] Department…

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Tax records stolen in North Carolina for the data?

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dissent

Matthew Hensley reports: Identity thieves may have stolen hundreds, perhaps thousands, of records from a former tax preparer, according to a police report. Latina Harris said someone broke into a residence at 412 Cleveland St. in Laurinburg, and stole eight filing cabinets full of information left over from when her mother, Ester Gaino, prepared taxes….

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CT: U. Conn addresses security breach

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Dissent

Amy McDavitt reports: A recent security breach on the Storrs campus revealed a list of former students’ names and Social Security numbers and made them available on the Internet. The university was made aware of the situation Oct. 4 after one of the individuals on the list discovered it and alerted university officials, according to…

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TX: HISD investigating how its computers were hacked

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Dissent

Erika Mellon reports: Houston school district officials suspect their computer system was hacked over the weekend, leaving employees and students without access to the Internet, online classes and e-mail for two days. The electronic blackout ended late Tuesday afternoon, but the district’s police department was continuing to work with the FBI to investigate the suspected…

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Florida businessman to be sentenced for stealing patient records from Jackson Memorial

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Dissent

Jay Weaver reports: A Miami-Dade businessman who pleaded guilty to pilfering thousands of patient records to sell to lawyers for injury claims faces up to 12 years in prison at his sentencing in federal court Monday afternoon. Ruben E. Rodriguez, 62, admitted he stole Jackson Memorial Hospital records of patients’ names, addresses, telephone numbers and…

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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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