Jeffrey Steven Girandola and Kajohn Phommavong have been charged in a previously sealed 16-count indictment with Conspiracy, Computer Fraud, Access Device Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft. According to the indictment, which was handed up by a federal grand jury in San Diego, the defendants installed peer-to-peer file sharing software on computers under their control and…
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Data of soldiers, patients found on P2P
The personal information of 200,000 soldiers and 20,245 hospital patients, along with other critical data from government networks, is being made to the public through peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, according to testimony yesterday at a hearing of the House Government and Oversight Committee. The security breach included data like names, Social Security Numbers, addresses, illnesses, next…
And yet even more p2p breaches
Thanks to Rian of RedTeam Protection, here are some more breaches they uncovered: An executive producer at a Manhattan based television Production Company published 2,755 documents onto the gnutella file-sharing network. Contractors of this firm were required to provide their name, date of birth, and social security number for tax purposes. The invoices with personal…
More p2p fiascos
Rian from RedTeam Protection, a division of Tony Josephs and Sons Investigations Inc., just sent me another batch of p2p cockups that exposed personal — and in some cases — sensitive medical — information. In each case, RedTeam advised the entity and/or helped ensure removal of the filesharing application. Some of these breaches are more…
More on p2p breaches
More on the Dartmouth study reported here recently. Angela Moscaritolo of SC Magazine adds other details: Over a two-week period, Dartmouth College researchers, in collaboration with P2P monitoring vendor Tiversa, searched file-sharing networks for key terms associated with the top ten publicly traded health care firms in the country, and discovered numerous sensitive documents –…
P2P networks rife with sensitive health care data, researcher warns
Jaikumar Vijayan reports on the issue of p2p exposures compromising the security and privacy of health data: Eric Johnson didn’t have to break into a computer to gain access to a 1,718-page document containing Social Security numbers, dates of birth, insurance information, treatment codes and other health care data belonging to about 9,000 patients at…