Dominican Republic Military has been hacked, 2 sites have been defaced and data leaked. These two site are the ministry of defense and the other from the Air force, both leaks contain data downloads with more to come later. The files that have been leaked so far are some server configuration, logs etc, with the bigger stuff…
Cn: Jail for telecom employees who sold subscriber details
Seen on English.Eastday.com: China Unicom and China Mobile employees were among a group of 23 people jailed yesterday for selling phone users’ details. Prison sentences ranged from a year to two years and six months. Liu Hongbo, who worked for the Beijing Longjiang Junwei Information Consulting Center, collaborated with her lover, Dai Bin, and China…
Update: UNC-Chapel Hill Police arrest suspect in theft of student records
There’s been an arrest in the case of the recent break in at a University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill office where 30 students’ records held by the Honor Court were stolen. NewsObserver.com reports: Garrett Lee Haywood, 22, of Chapel Hill, was arrested today on charges of breaking-and-entering, larceny and possession of stolen goods. Haywood was…
VA: Norfolk McDonald’s cashier admits stealing card data
Tim McGlone reports: When Sophia Jacobs worked the drive-thru at the Norfolk Naval Station McDonald’s, she swiped hundreds of customers’ credit or debit cards twice – once through the register and again through a skimmer. She and her friends then went on a shopping spree with those card numbers to the tune of about $50,000,…
Update: Health Net data breach affected more Oregonians than previously thought
Brent Hunsberger reports that Health Net has sent out corrected notifications following the discovery of missing drives in January: Health Net Inc. said a data breach discovered in January affected more people than originally thought and that it had erred in telling thousands of former and current members that their Social Security numbers were not…
Why the Proposed Massachusetts HIV Testing Bill Is Bad for Patients
Paul E. Sax, M.D. comments: As I’ve written about here multiple times, I’m not a big fan of the HIV testing law in our state. First, there’s the requirement for written informed consent, something that every state (except a couple) has wisely abandoned. Second, it’s more than a testing law — it’s also an HIV privacy law, which is…