Kieren McCarthy reports: Uber has subpoenaed GitHub to unmask netizens suspected of hacking its database of taxi drivers. The ride-booking app maker is trying to force GitHub [PDF] to hand over the IP addresses of anyone who visited a particular gist post between March and September last year. That gist is believed to have contained a login…
Two Wyoming Bills Amending the State’s Breach Notification Statute Are Headed to the Governor
Hunton & Williams write: On February 23, 2015, the Wyoming Senate approved a bill (S.F.36) that adds several data elements to the definition of “personal identifying information” in the state’s data breach notification statute. The amended definition will expand Wyoming’s breach notification law to cover certain online account access credentials, unique biometric data, health insurance information, medical…
“We take the privacy and security of your information very seriously,” Saturday edition
I’ve been known to get a tad snarky about breach notification letters that begin with how the breached entity takes the privacy and security of our information seriously. Sadly, that line seems to have become a pro forma part of breach notices. Yesterday, though, I read a breach notification from Piedmont Advantage Credit Union about a missing laptop with customer…
All in the family: Three Milwaukee sisters face 90 felony charges for filing fraudulent tax returns
Ashley Sears reports on a tax refund fraud scheme that included using the identity information of prisoners in the Mississippi prison system: Three sisters from the Milwaukee area are facing a total of 90 felony charges for filing fraudulent income tax returns following a two-year investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue’s (DOR) Criminal Investigation…
TX: Socorro Independent School District student charged with breach of the district’s computer system
Ashleigh Rodriguez reports: The Socorro Independent School District spent $8,000 this weekend, cleaning up a number of Eastlake High computers. A student downloaded malware, or a malicious program to the school’s computer system. […] After spending the weekend checking 1,000 computers, they found out he had only infected 16. Reyna said he was attempting to…
AZ: Court clerk: Security breach affects hundreds of court cases
Raquel Hendrickson reports: “A severe dereliction of duty” is what Clerk of the Superior Court Amanda Stanford is calling a reported security breach that could impact hundreds of criminal cases in Pinal County. Stanford is alleging her predecessor, Chad Roche, gave the county attorney’s office access to files that had been sealed by the court….