A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment charging Harvey James for using stolen identities to file false tax returns, the Justice Department the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced yesterday. The 34-count indictment charges James with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to the indictment, Harvey James obtained stolen identities from individuals…
UK: MedConfidential.org launch
Earlier this week, Ross Anderson blogged: I’m at the launch in London of the new campaign for medical privacy, MedConfidential.org. Sam Smith and I will be liveblogging the day’s events in comments below. For background, see here, here, here and here. Most of today’s audience are from groups for whom medical privacy is particularly important, such as charities dealing with rape…
Japanese Mobile Operator NTT DoCoMo Hacked, Credit Card Information Leaked for #StopCISPA
Over the past few weeks tension has built again over the well known CISPA bill which the American government is trying to get in place. Anonymous hacktivist have once again lashed out and now leaks of data have started with one of the first coming from a well known and major player in the mobile…
News Gaint The Times Hacked, 5,000+ Credentials leaked
UPDATED: Credibility of this leak and the hackers is questionable as it has been pointed out this is duplicated data Today a hacker from Syria has announced a leak of data that comes form one of britains and the worlds most well known and biggest news site, The Times (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/). wiki The leak comes from @SyriaHighFlyer who posted…
Florida bill criminalizing possession of others’ ID information passes, heads to Governor’s desk
WJHG reports: It took less than a minute Friday for the Florida Senate to pass legislation to curb identity fraud. Now the bill is headed to the Governor. The legislation was drafted in response to news reports that police were arresting people carrying dozens of IDs that don’t belong to them, but had to let…
Life Flight informs patients of possible confidential information breach
Wendy Leonard reports: Patients flown by Life Flight helicopters during at least three months of 2004 were advised Friday that their personal information may have been compromised. The information, collected from patients in April, May and June of that year, was inadvertently put on an employee website where it may have been accessed by individuals…