Last month, when I discovered that part of a subdomain of the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Adminstration was being used for spam, I used FHWA’s on-site feedback form to alert them to the problem. No reply. I called them later in the week and left a courteous voicemail. No reply. I also emailed…
Category: U.S.
Former Nursing Home Licensed Practical Nurse Pleads Guilty to Stealing Patients’ IDs
Erica Shanta Fowler, 27, of Virginia Beach, pled guilty Tuesday to aggravated identity theft for stealing identity information belonging to nursing home patients. Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, made the announcement after Fowler’s plea was accepted by United States District Judge Robert G. Doumar. She faces a mandatory…
CA: Enloe ambulance patients’ info stolen from storage bin
Greg Welter reports: Paperwork containing patient information is missing from a shredding bin at an Enloe Medical Center facility, apparently taken before it could be destroyed. Laura Hennum, public relations director for the medical center, said the missing paperwork documented ambulance runs made by Enloe approximately between Oct. 8 and 12. The theft was discovered…
Security Flaws Discovered In Calif. EDD Website
Anna Werner reports: For laid off workers such as Tom Diederich of Pacifica, it’s a requirement: To get unemployment benefits you have to post your resume on CalJOBS, the state’s job site. “I filled out my employment history and I saved it,” said Diederich, who bookmarked it for future reference. But the next day when…
EXCLUSIVE: UW-Madison discovers 40 computers used for file-sharing
A site reader alerted DataBreaches.net to a recent breach involving the Department of Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison recently. According to the notification letter, a copy of which was provided to this site, the university notified some faculty and students that their personal information was on 40 departmental computers that had been hacked. In a…
TN: Roane State announces 11,000 employee and student Social Security numbers stolen from employee’s car
WBIR reports: Roane State Community College has announced that the names and Social Security numbers of 9,747 current or former students were on a data storage device stolen from an employee’s vehicle, along with 1,194 current/former employees’ information. The Social Security numbers alone, with no names, were also stolen for 5,036 additional current or former…