CBC News reports: The Western University student charged in a security breach of Revenue Canada‘s website is scheduled to make his first appearance in an Ottawa courtroom today. Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes, 19, of London, Ont., is charged with one count of unauthorized use of a computer and one count of mischief in relation to data…
What HIPAA doesn't cover
Erin McCann writes: Sure, HIPAA adds a layer of privacy protection for certain health data — if organizations actually comply with it — but there remains myriad avenues of mining health data and selling to the highest bidder that do not fall under the purview of HIPAA’s privacy and security rules. And they may surprise…
Update: Man arrested over Benesse data theft
Mainichi reports: A 39-year-old systems engineer was arrested Thursday over a massive customer data theft from Benesse Holdings Inc. on suspicion of copying confidential business data from the major correspondence education provider for children, police said. Masaomi Matsuzaki is alleged to have downloaded and copied Benesse’s data covering some 10.19 million customers — including such…
Supposed ‘leader’ of LulzSec, ‘Aush0k,’ pleads guilty to hacking, hubris
From the how-much-can-we-hype-this-before-they-catch-on dept.: Richard Chirgwin reports: Matthew Flannery, once paraded by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) as the “leader” of international hacking collective LulzSec, has pleaded guilty to the five remaining charges against him, in Gosford Local Court. […] The only victim of his work identified in public was the Narrabri Shire Council in the Australian…
FL: Dothan woman convicted of identity theft charges
Matt Elofson reports: A jury convicted a Dothan woman Wednesday afternoon of seven felony charges in connection to a conspiracy to defraud the government through identity theft and the filing of false tax returns. […] According to evidence from the trial, Macena provided stolen identities to Ivory Bolen, also of Dothan, who used the identities…
NC: Checks with Buncombe school employee information stolen
Julie Ball reports: Buncombe County school officials have alerted more than 170 employees after an envelope containing checks with their names and Social Security numbers was stolen and some of the checks were cashed. The checks were mailed in March to ING, the financial services company, as contributions to supplemental retirement plans. Some employees contribute…