Tom Spalding reports: A 28-year-old Indianapolis man was sentenced today to two years in state prison for trying to extort $208,00 from an insurance company after stealing a computer server. Kevin M. Stewart was the first to be prosecuted under a law that makes it a crime to commit extortion with material from a protected…
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Digital Direct reports breach
Chris Cooper of Bloomberg.com reports that Digital Direct, Inc., a unit of Mistubishi Corp., had a breach of their e-commerce web site that resulted in the compromise of 52,000 customers’ credit card numbers. According to Cooper, the breach, which reportedly originated overseas (from them), was first brought to Digital Direct’s attention by credit card companies…
Man stole identities from prison inmates
He had at least five names, but just one that belonged to him. The others, authorities say, he stole with exquisite skill and confounding cunning from prison inmates in Mississippi. Then Johnny Peden, a balding, smooth-talking 45-year-old, used those names to steal and steal, investigators say, concocting one of the most elaborate and long-running one-man…
MA: City fines man for dumping tax forms
Laura Crimaldi and Frank Quaratiello report: City inspectors in Boston have fined a Norwood man $2,500 after finding “thousands” of tax documents containing sensitive personal information in a Dumpster behind a dollar store in Hyde Park. Employees at a Family Dollar store at 1248 River St. discovered the unshredded tax documents yesterday when they attempted…
Effectiveness of medical privacy law is questioned
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar writes in the Los Angeles Times: When Congress passed a federal medical privacy law more than a decade ago, it was hailed as a new level of protection for patients nationwide. But even though the government has received about 34,000 complaints of privacy violations since it officially began enforcing the law five years…