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…
Morningstar resets clients’ passwords and notifies them of breach involving Morningstar Document Research
A reader sent this in with a note that a bunch of folks in his office received this email this morning: Dear Morningstar client: I am writing to make you aware that some of your personal information, including your name, address, email address, and password, may have been compromised because of an illegal intrusion into…
PA: Ephrata Community Hospital fires employee for snooping in patient records
In a statement on their web site linked from their home page as a privacy notice, Ephrata Community Hospital in Pennsylvania writes: Ephrata Community Hospital takes our obligation to protect our patients’ personal health information seriously. Regrettably, this notice concerns some of that information. On April 16, 2013, we learned that one of our employees had accessed…
AT&T Hacker ‘weev’ Tests Limits of U.S. Crime Law on Website Use
Dune Lawrence and David Voreacos report: He is a red-headed hacker who hails from Arkansas, goes by the name “weev,” and seems to delight in being annoying. For years, he broke into computer systems, disrupted blog sites and riled people with personal attacks. Now his case has become a flashpoint in the debate over where…