Mathew J. Schwartz reports: LulzSec Hacker “Topiary” famously tweeted: “You cannot arrest an idea.” Perhaps not, but in the case of Topiary, revealed to be Jake Davis, now 20, you can be sentenced to 24 months in a “young offenders institute” for two counts of conspiracy to impair the operation of a computer, to be followed…
Medical worker stole patient identities
Debbie Knox of WISH TV in Indiana reports: Greenwood police was the agency that alerted Community Health that they had an employee who was stealing patients’ identities. “A former patient had stated that they had reason to believe that someone had taken their identity,” said Jean Putnam, Vice President at Community Health Network.” Between mid-March…
TerraCom notifies 150,000 Lifeline applicants after breach
Here’s a breach I didn’t see in the media but first learned of from the Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection. According to that office, on April 26, 2013, TerraCom, a wireless learned of a security breach involving unauthorized access to personal data and downloaded files related to over 150,000 individuals. The data was stored on…
MS: Head Start records containing personal information stolen from Moss Point office
April Havens reports: Residents’ personal information could be in jeopardy after someone took Head Start records from Jackson County Civic Action Committee Inc.’s Jefferson Street facility in Moss Point. Spokeswoman Hannah Donegan sent out a news release today saying the theft occurred between April and April 24, and a police report has been filed in…
AU: Hackers steal physio clinic files
Jessica Elder reports on another case of ransomware and an extortion demand affecting a health facility in Australia: A Mermaid Waters physiotherapy clinic is the second medical practice on the Gold Coast to be held to ransom by an international hacker demanding $5000 to unlock patient files. The scam, which has affected businesses across the…
Nuix and EDRM republish Enron data set cleansed of more than 10,000 items containing private, health and financial information
A follow-up to an issue recently raised by BeyondRecognition.net and discussed on this blog. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 15, 2013 — Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, and EDRM, the leading standards organization for the eDiscovery and information governance market, have today republished the EDRM Enron PST Data Set after cleansing it of private,…