El Paso County Community College has been targeted due to pure lack of security, @DestructiveSec has been busy away in the servers taking what they wish snooping around and leaving a mess for them to clean up as well as a defaced website. The attack is due to lack of security and because they have failed to fix the exploits this…
Lawsuit against Tufts Medical Center for privacy breach dropped
A lawsuit against Tufts University Medical Center and one of its doctors, mentioned previously on this blog, has been dropped. Chelsea Conaboy reports: A woman who sued Tufts Medical Center and a doctor at the hospital, alleging that they violated her privacy by faxing medical records to her workplace, has agreed to drop the case….
IE: Personnel files found dumped in industrial estate
Ralph Riegel reports: Files containing confidential information on private security staff were discovered in a box left unattended in an industrial estate. An investigation by the Data Protection Agency (DPA) is now under way into the discovery of files at Frankfield Industrial Estate in Cork. The files were removed by Cork County Council officials yesterday…
Pointer: A to Z of Healthcare Data Breaches
Theodore J. Kobus III has a nice little A to Z of Healthcare Data Breaches on Data Privacy Monitor.
Wells Fargo manager, Best Buy clerk charged with stealing identities of 9 people
Sergio Bichao reports: Two former employees of a Wells Fargo bank in Warren and a Best Buy in Union are facing charges of stealing the identities of nine people to open fake credit cards and ring up more than $29,000 in purchases. Tinaud Garcon, 21, of Union in Union County, and Thomas Alexis, 30, of…
Got Pwned? PwnedList.com Knows
Paul Roberts writes: With more and more victims of identity theft minted every day, figuring out if you’re one of the unlucky masses with a leaked email password is yeoman’s work. Now one security researcher is trying to make it easy with PwnedList.com, a Web site that collects leaked and stolen data, then tells Internet users…