Yoree Koh reports: Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday its Japanese-language corporate website had been hacked earlier this month. The world’s biggest auto maker said the security breach didn’t compromise customer information because such data isn’t stored on the site. But it urges those who visited the site from June 5 to June 14 to install…
ADP “software code error” exposes Houston govt. employees’ info online
Cindy George reports: Technical issues encountered by the city of Houston’s payroll contractor could have potentially exposed personal information for nearly 5,000 local government workers, including more than 1,000 in the Houston Police Department. Widespread notice about the compromised data emerged on Wednesday when the Houston Police Officers’ Union posted a notice to members on its…
Dumpster discoveries anger tenants
Robert Townsend reports: Some former applicants and tenants are frustrated after finding their social security numbers, bank statements and other personal information in a dumpster at the Eldorado Apartments on E. 67th Street in Raytown, Mo. Read more on Fox4
San Jose IT Consultant Charged With Identity Theft
Lisa Fernandez reports: A 39-year-old San Jose IT consultant has been charged with a string of Silicon Valley office burglaries that netted computer components and customer profiles and caused the networks of several businesses to shut down. After an investigation by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s high-tech crime task force, Andrew Madrid was charged…
Former UCM student sentenced for stealing student and faculty info
Following up on the indictment of two former University of Central Missouri students for stealing faculty and student information for commercial gain, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri issued a press release today that one of the defendants has been sentenced to three years in prison plus restitution: Tammy Dickinson, United…
NZ: Woman posted wrong patient's medical records
It seemed to be “just another” case where a district health board made a mailing error and sent a patient’s records to the wrong party. But the response of the privacy commissioner disturbed me somewhat. The West Coast District Health Board has apologised after it posted two pages of a woman’s private medical records to…