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WI: Personal data was stored on laptop swiped from Madison city hall

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Dissent

Dean Mosiman reports: Madison officials and employees are complaining that Social Security numbers were stored on a laptop computer stolen from a city office Friday. The laptop was recovered this morning, but it’s unclear if sensitive information was stolen. Any official or employee — except those in the police, fire and transit departments — who…

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NZ man finds US army files on MP3 player

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Dissent

A New Zealand man has found confidential United States military files on an MP3 player he bought at an op shop in the US. Chris Ogle, 29, from Whangarei, bought the player from an Oklahoma thrift shop for $NZ18 ($A14.50), and found the files when he hooked it up to his computer, TV One News…

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TN: Hacker sentenced for tampering with medical records

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Dissent

A 39-year-old Dyersburg man who hacked into a private computer and tampered with another person’s health records will spend 28 months in prison. A federal jury convicted Bradley Reeves Forsythe, 53 Ducky Lane, on Sept. 5 of intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to cause damage. Forsythe was sentenced Jan. 9 in U.S. District Court…

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MD: Man, 53, gets 11 years in identity theft scheme

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Dissent

Tricia Bishop reports: A 53-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison Friday for his role in an identity theft and mail fraud scheme that affected more than 250 victims and lasted nearly 30 years, the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office said. According to the plea agreement, Loquann Johnson and his co-conspirators targeted…

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CA: Credit card fraud hits Glenn County departments

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Dissent

One of the many problems with large incidents like the Heartland Payment Systems breach is that you wonder whether every bank or CU breach being reported is linked…. Barbara Arrigoni reports: A bank under contract with Glenn County has alerted officials of allegedly fraudulent charges to county credit cards. As of late Friday, the Finance…

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Monster.com Reports Theft of User Data

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Dissent

Deja vu all over again… Nancy Gohring of IDG News Service reports: Monster.com is advising its users to change their passwords after data including e-mail addresses, names and phone numbers were stolen from its database. The break-in comes just as the swelling ranks of the unemployed are turning to sites like Monster.com to look for…

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