CBC News reports: A stolen hard drive containing pension data for about 800 former City of Ottawa employees will likely never be retrieved, according to the company that was handling the information. New York-based Towers Watson notified the city of the breach after the hard drive disappeared from an office in the Philippines. Towers Watson…
Melbourne IT takes heat for Cold Fusion breach
James Hutchinson reports: Melbourne IT has admitted to hosting and operating both the Queensland Government and AAPT servers that suffered breaches this week at the hands of hackers purporting to be from a Anonymous splinter group. The group Ops Australia took credit for defacing nine Queensland Government websites related to tourism, science and economic development and stealing…
CA: ID theft suspects busted in credit card-skimming case
From News10: It continues to happen. Three individuals were arrested Thursday on suspicion of identity theft and burglary after a month-long investigation in which detectives with the Sacramento County sheriff’s hi tech crimes unit uncovered credit/debit card skimming devices, thousands of credit card numbers, hundreds of bogus California identification cards and numerous counterfeit credit cards….
Northwestern Memorial Hospital notifies hospice patients after laptops with personal and medical info stolen from office (updated)
Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Home Hospice in Chicago is notifying patients of a breach involving their unencrypted personal and medical information. Here is their press release, posted to their site on July 25: Statement Regarding Hospice Burglary and Patient Health Information Breach On the evening of June 11, 2012, Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Home Hospice offices at…
Taking note that we're in the dark (updated to shine some light)
Aha. It’s not just yours truly complaining about breaches where no information is readily available. One of the breaches I had cited as an example involved Upper Valley Medical Center. Citing the entry on HHS’s breach tool, I had written: Upper Valley Medical Center,OH,,”15,000?,10/01/2010-03/21/2012,Unauthorized Access/Disclosure,Other,7/3/2012,, The breach went on for over one year? There…
Global Payments Takes Charge of $84 Million for Data Breach
Andrew R. Johnson of Dow Jones Newswires reports: Global Payments Inc. (GPN) said Thursday a security breach that exposed potentially millions of consumers’ payment cards to fraudsters will cost it $84.4 million. The Atlanta-based company, which processes card transactions for banks and merchants, recorded a pre-tax charge for the amount, equal to 68 cents of…