Some of the computer devices stolen from the University of Victoria earlier this month have been recovered, along with a repentant note from the thieves that police are finding hard to believe. A postal worker found the hard drives and other computer devices in a green garbage bag stuffed in a mailbox in the nearby…
MD: Social Security, some credit card numbers were stored on public USM server
Andrew Ujifusa reports: The University System of Maryland until recently had been storing information, including Social Security and some credit card numbers, of thousands of prospective students on a server that the public can access, according to a state audit this week. The revelation was among seven findings from a study conducted by the General…
CA: Sequoia Hospital vendor posted hospital employees’ personal information online
Aaron Kinney reports: A contractor working for Sequoia Hospital inadvertently posted the personal information of 391 current and former hospital employees on a public website, where it stayed for four years, the hospital said Thursday. An employee for Towers Watson, an international professional services firm, posted the information in October 2007, hospital CEO Glenna Vaskelis…
FL: Customer credit cards compromised at restaurant
Stephanie Kolp reports: At least eight people say they’re the victim of credit card fraud. And the one thing they all have in common is that they all ate at the same restaurant in December. Anthony Valerio was one of those victims. “I realized there was a $77 charge to my account and I didn’t…
NY ID theft scam has victims in 30 states
AP reports: Two New York women are facing grand larceny and other charges after a prosecutor said they posted phony Craigslist ads for nonexistent jobs and apartments and then used respondents’ personal information to obtain state income tax refunds, bank loans and credit cards in the victims’ names. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said…
Univ. of Hawaii settles data breach class action
AP reports: The University of Hawaii will provide two years of credit protection services to settle a class-action lawsuit involving data breaches involving nearly 100,000 students, faculty, alumni and staff between 2009 and 2011, officials and attorneys announced Thursday. Read more on Canadian Business.