Rebecca Greenfield writes: In an attempt to give advertisers more information about the effectiveness of ads, Facebook has partnered with Datalogix, a company that “can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores,” as The Financial Times‘s Emily Steel and April Dembosky explain. Advertisers have complained that Facebook doesn’t give them any way to…
Former Howard University Hospital Employee Sentenced For Selling Personal Information About 40 Patients
Laurie Napper, a former medical technician at Howard University Hospital, was sentenced today to six months in a halfway house and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service on a federal charge stemming from the sale of personal information about patients, along with blank prescription forms, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and…
Ah, less-than-sweet mysteries of life: when you can’t figure out if or how you were breached
How frustrating for everyone: St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore learned that 40 of its physicians had become victims of ID theft. Hapless victims had their names and Social Security numbers used to create wireless telephone accounts that they knew nothing about until they started receiving overdue notices from creditors. But despite its best efforts to…
Hacktivism skews security trend analysis
The re-emergence of the hacktivist movement appears to have thrown a spanner in the works for those in the InfoSec industry charged with data breach trend analysis. There has been a series of massive data breaches over the last 16 months – each of which compromised more than a million identities. During the same time,…
UK: Suffolk: Police officers resign after allegations of data protection breaches
Matt Gaw reports: Two police officers have resigned and another two staff members sacked after allegations of data protection breaches at Suffolk Constabulary, it can be revealed. Force bosses said the unlawful use of personal or police information “would not be tolerated” after figures obtained by the East Anglian Daily Times showed 66 suspected cases…
ASUS Italy Hacked, site defaced, Thousands of client details leaked
A hacker who goes by the handle of Maxney and is apart of Turkish Ajan Hacker Group has contacted us with information and data from an Italian based Asus website. The site was hacked and left defaced, thousands of accounts have been leaked as well as its complete database. This is not the first time Maxney has targeted big corporations,m…