Anh Nguyen provides an update on a breach reported on PogoWasRight.org yesterday. At the time, I had raised the possibility that the breach might be linked to a previously known breach involving SilverPop. It turns out that was the explanation: Play.com has emailed its customers again to shed more light on the security breach it…
Divorce papers found in ‘new’ Asus laptop purchased in Singapore
Gareth Halfacree reports: Central Provident Fund statements and divorce documents; these were what Hidayat Sudirman found stored in a 14-inch Asus notebook PC he bought from retailer Newstead Technologies recently at an IT fair. The 25-year-old civil servant discovered 10GB worth of personal data, including tax return forms, belonging to its previous owner. Upset, he…
CA men indicted for allegedly stealing credit card info from 194 people in Hawaii
Minna Sugimoto reports: Honolulu prosecutors on Tuesday secured an eight-count indictment against three California men suspected of stealing financial information from nearly 200 people in Hawaii. Drivers like Adam Sonntag fuel up their cars without giving identity theft much thought. But Honolulu prosecutors say during a two-week period last September, three men used credit card…
Location Privacy And Wireless Body Area Networks
MIT Technology Review’s The Physics arXiv Blog has an article that gave me some food for thought about the wireless monitoring systems being used on patients to record blood pressure and other vital signs or activity. Although the health data/measures may be encrypted, the location of the device’s unique hardware address is not encrypted…
SSNs of All Laredo ISD Students Missing In Data Breach; Trustee says not “a big deal”
Morgan Smith reports: A disk holding the Social Security numbers of every student in the Laredo Independent School District — a total of 24,903 — has gone missing, according to the Texas Education Agency. TEA spokeswoman Suzanne Marchman said the agency first became aware of the situation in January, when officials with the University of…
Lone Star Business Solutions exposes thousands of employees and applicants to ID theft
Let the naming, shaming, and flaming begin! A call to FactFinder 12 leads to the discovery of thousands of personal documents dumped in a Wichita alley. Lone Star Business Solutions, a third party payroll and human resource company for Lone Star restaurants, dumped the documents in a large dumpster behind its building in downtown Wichita….