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Stolen Educational Testing Service laptop contained readers’ personal info

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Dissent

A laptop stolen from an employee’s desk in mid-December contained names and social security numbers of people employed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) as readers, according to a report filed (pdf) with the Maryland Attorney General’s Office this week. The laptop, which had been locked into its docking station, does not appear to have…

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IN: Personal Info Of More Than 8,700 Posted On State Site

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Dissent

The Social Security Numbers of more than 8,700 current and former state employees were inadvertently posted on a state Web site last week, officials said. The information of 8,775 employees who had filed a worker’s compensation or disability claim between 2005 and 2008 was uploaded in a file to the Indiana Department of Administration’s procurement…

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MD: Missing HCC flash drive contained personal info on 70 DSS clients

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Dissent

On December 5, Harford Community College learned (pdf) that a flash drive containing personal information had been misplaced by an employee at its WAGE Connection office in Aberdeen, Maryland. The personal information of 70 Department of Social Service clients participating in the WAGE Connection program was on the missing drive and included their name, social…

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Guilty Plea: Blind Hacker Admits Harassment, Eavesdropping, Fraud

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Dissent

Kevin Poulsen reports on 18 year-old Matthew Weigman, a blind telephone hacker: […] In his plea deal with prosecutors, Weigman, who was born blind, admitted to a long criminal resume (.pdf). Among other things, he confessed to conspiring with other telephone hooligans who made hundreds of false calls to police that sent armed SWAT teams…

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OR: State loses 45 Social Security numbers in scam

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Dissent

Alexander Rich reports: An online scammer made off with 45 Social Security numbers after sending a virus to a computer at the Department of Human Services office in Coos Bay last week. The virus arrived in the form of a bogus e-mail with a link on it Jan. 23. When an employee clicked on the…

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Ex-R.I. Hospital guard sentenced for patient ID thefts

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Dissent

Mike McKinney reports: A former Rhode Island Hospital security guard today was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for stealing hospital patients’ identity information and opening cell phone and charge accounts at a Cranston RadioShack — with help from some store clerks. Michael Bermudez, 27, of Regent Avenue, Providence, received a 39-month…

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