Maria Tuma reports: Anti-abortion activists in Texas employ strategies to identify and monitor abortion patients, investigate abortion providers and clinic staff, and search tax records to find locations of abortion providers, according to newly released undercover audio. The audio, from NARAL Pro-Choice Texas and Progress Texas, was recorded during a training session at the Capitol hosted…
Comptroller DiNapoli: Schools Must Do More to Limit Access to Sensitive Student Databases
Yes, it’s as bad as I’ve been saying for years. Now if they will just audit the NYC Department of Education, too. Employees in six upstate New York school districts had inappropriate computer access to sensitive student data and were able to change student grades and attendance records without proper authorization, according to an audit released today…
CT: Bank teller used customer information for counterfeit checks
Kait Shea reports: A former People’s United Bank teller in Trumbull is charged with stealing customer information to create counterfeit checks. Robert Walker of Bridgeport was arrested Aug. 18. He was a teller at the Peoples United Bank branch at Stop & Shop in Trumbull. Walker is charged with trafficking of personal identifying information, first…
Personal data on 170 New Mexico State U. students on stolen laptop
Mike Bush reports: New Mexico State University has determined that the on-campus theft of computing equipment in June included a laptop with a link to personal information on some 170 students. The suspected thief, the university said in a letter dated Aug. 11 to the affected students, has been arrested and charged, but, “had disposed…
CORRECTED: E.A. Conway learns of FTP exposure breach of patient information; information exposed for over one year
CORRECTION AND UPDATE: See this email and documentation from Professor Bowne. It seems that the media reporting on a breach involving patients at E. A. Conway Medical Center was inaccurate in some important respects, with the inaccuracies stemming from the Louisiana State University Health System‘s notice about the breach. To summarize: Professor Sam Bowne of City…
Restaurant Mizado Cocina says customer credit card data breached by hacker
Katherine Sayer reports: New Orleans restaurant Mizado Cocina says customers’ credit and debit card information could have been stolen by a hacker who breached the restaurant’s point of sale system between May 9 and July 18. The business discovered that a hacker installed a previously unidentified malware called Backoff, which targets point of sale systems, on…