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Category: U.S.

Met Life fax malfunction misdirects personal info

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Dissent

Metropolitan Life Insurance (Met Life) has notified (pdf) the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that for about two days in January, their electronic fax server malfunctioned after they had uploaded a software patch.  As a result, personal information on some customers — including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers — was misdirected to other fax numbers….

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Genica/Geeks.com still identifying new victims of 2007 hack

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Dissent

Genica/Geeks.com was in the news last month when they settled charges with the FTC concerning their database security.   Less than two weeks later, they were notifying at least one state attorney general that they had identified yet more victims of the breach that occurred in 2007. By letter dated February 16, 2009 to Maryland, Genica’s…

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CA: Octuplets hospital workers fired

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Dissent

Fifteen hospital workers have been fired for improperly accessing the medical records of octuplets mother Nadya Suleman, officials have said. Eight other staff at the [Kaiser Permanente Bellflower] hospital near Los Angeles were disciplined for looking at the records without permission, the hospital said. Read more on BBC See also L.A. Times

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Romanian phisher gets 50 month prison term

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Dissent

Dan Goodin of The Register reports: A Romanian man has been sentenced to serve more than four years in US prison for taking part in a sophisticated phishing scam that cost financial institutions at least $150,000. Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman, 23, of Craiova, Romania, received 50 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release….

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On the menu: stealing your details

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Dissent

Freeman Klopott reports: Wait staff at several Washington-area high-end restaurants stole credit card numbers from customers and ran up a $750,000 tab at stores like Gucci and Barney’s of New York, federal authorities said in court documents. […] The customers victimized at the District’s M&S Grill, 701 Restaurant, Clyde’s of Gallery Place and Bowie’s Carrabba’s…

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NY: Box delivered to Sun office leads to investigation

Posted on March 28, 2009 by Dissent

Grant Parpan of the North Shore Sun reports: A cardboard box filled with records from a Holbrook social worker’s office — including Social Security and bank account numbers, addresses and phone numbers of clients — was delivered to The North Shore Sun last week by a town worker who said he found it lying on…

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