CORRECTION: An alert reader notified this site that NextGov had goofed in reporting that OPM had recently revealed that the breach was larger than previously reported. NextGov has retracted that part of their story and issued an Editor’s Note: Editor’s Note: The original version of this article erroneously stated that the Office of Personnel Management had acknowledged for…
C’mon folks, stop screwing up the easy stuff
It’s been what – at least a decade? – since we started seeing reports of personal and corporate information left on drives that were being resold on eBay? And yet even now, 2/3 of drives contain personal or corporate data, according to a new study.
San Jose man sentenced to 17 years for role in ID theft ring victimizing dozens
A San Jose man today was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for masterminding what San Jose police believe is one of the most extensive and insidious identity theft rings in the city’s history. Tri Van Nguyen was sentenced by the Hon. Socrates Manoukian following his plea to 87 felony counts earlier this…
Rhode Island Data Breach Update Now Effective
Liisa M. Thomas writes: The Rhode Island updates to its breach law that we previously reported on are now effective. As a reminder, under the amended law, notice is now required 45 days after “confirmation of the breach,” and the Rhode Island attorney general is to be notified if 500 Rhode Island residents are impacted….
264,000 and counting: Hack of EHR/EMR vendor leaves clients scrambling
What data security incident currently holds the undesirable status of 2016’s largest incident involving patient data that has been reported to HHS?* There’s a good chance you’ve never heard about it because the company has remained publicly mute. San Jose-based Bizmatics, Inc. designs and markets electronic health record and electronic medical records practice management software…
Hacker who stole $50G from George Soros’ foundation sentenced up to six years in prison
Lauren Klose and Reuven Blau report: The computer hacker who stole $50,000 from a nonprofit run by George Soros was sentenced Monday to up to six years in prison. Computer expert David Kupratis, 31, of Parlin, N.J. twice assumed another person’s identity and then filched a laptop computer and cellphone from a third person in…