Amy Forliti of AP has update to a previously reported breach: A Minnesota man who pleaded guilty to stealing identification information from members of his former Army unit at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg has been sentenced to two years in prison. Keith Michael Novak was sentenced Friday in federal court on one count of identity theft. Read more on…
SC: Sea Pines Resort victims of security breach
Jamison Dowd reports: Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head, home of the RBC Heritage, may have been the victims of a computer hack resulting in stolen credit card information. Officials with the resort sat they are conducting a full investigation the extent of the situation and is working with credit card networks to minimize the impact…
KR: State auditor launches inspection on financial regulator for allowing gathering of medical data
Yonhap News reports: South Korea’s state audit agency has launched an inspection on the financial regulator for its decision giving local life insurers access to personal health records for use as credit information, financial sources said Wednesday. According to the sources, a team of inspectors from the Board of Audit and Inspection has been at…
FL: Pompano woman faces up to 32 years in prison for involvement in ID theft fraud
Another follow-up to a previously reported case. Emily Miller reports: A Pompano Beach woman faces up to 32 years in prison for her participation in an identity theft fraud scheme involving personal identifying information from AT&T customer files. Monique Smith, 31, of Pompano Beach, has pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to commit…
U.S. Dept. of Energy to investigate ‘security event’ at Y-12 plant
Frank Munger reports: The U.S. Department of Energy has notified the contractor at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge that it plans to investigate a possible security breach and release of classified information. There were no details of the breach immediately available, and a plant spokesman said he couldn’t comment on the situation….
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera
Jonathan Mayer writes: I’m excited to be teaching Stanford Law’s first Coursera offering this fall, on government surveillance. In preparation, I’ve been extensively poking around the platform; while I found some snazzy features, I also stumbled across a few security and privacy issues. Any teacher can dump the entire user database, including over nine million names and email addresses. If…