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Miami Man Indicted for Purchasing, Selling and Using Stolen Credit Card Information

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Dissent

A Miami man was charged yesterday with buying, selling and using stolen credit card information. Juan Javier Cardenas was charged in a three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to traffic in unauthorized credit card numbers and to possess unauthorized credit card numbers with intent to defraud; trafficking in unauthorized credit card…

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New York hospital loses data on 130,000 via FedEx

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Dissent

Robert McMillan reports: New York’s Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center is notifying patients that their personal information may have been compromised after seven CDs full of unencrypted data were FedExed by a hospital contractor and then lost in transit. The CDs were sent by the hospital’s billing processor, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, around March…

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CA: Officials investigate potential information breach

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dissent

Some personal information from a computer science and engineering class at Cal State San Bernardino may have been disclosed. Information from one class roster file containing names and social security numbers was inadvertently made public through a Web server. The files were promptly removed upon discovery on June 10, and university officials are investigating if…

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NJ: Social Security numbers, federal tax numbers released in error by Sparta Board of Education

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dissent

Seth Augenstein reports: A local activist’s recent public records request resulted in some extra information — namely, some personal Social Security numbers, and some federal tax identification numbers. Jesse Wolosky, a well-known Sparta activist who recently lost a bid for a Township Council seat, put in a request for a list of vendors to the…

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Commentary: Is WellPoint blaming others for breach?

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dissent

Steve Ragan has a statement from WellPoint that he posted on Tech Herald. While the company doesn’t deny that the actual cause of the exposure was a faulty security update, from there, it reads as if they are pointing fingers everywhere but at themselves. WellPoint mentions the role of the plaintiff’s attorney(s): The reason that…

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UMaine students who sought mental health services’ data compromised

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Dissent

The University of Maine police department is investigating a data breach of which has lead to the exposure of personal and medical information of almost 5,000 students between the summer of 2002 and this past week. According to a press release from the university, the servers which have been breached were the ones that stored…

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