Kevin Lizarazo reports: A file containing 61,001 names, including NetIDs and SBU IDs, was leaked on the Internet on Dec. 14., prompting the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) to investigate the incident. Richard W. Reeder, DoIT’s Chief Information Officer, called the disclosure “very irresponsible.” A user posted the file on sbuchat.com, a website described on…
Vermont petitions the Supreme Court to consider Sorrell v. IMS Health
Conor McGilvy of SCOTUSblog provides some helpful links on Vermont’s recent petition to the Supreme Court to overturn the Second Circuit’s decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health. The case concerns a state law that restricted access to prescription drug records and that required patient consent for disclosure of the records for sales or marketing purposes….
TX: Ex-cons accused of running ID theft ring
Jessica Willey reports: With the arrest of two men, investigators say they have uncovered a major, statewide identity theft ring. Authorities say it wasn’t hard for the two suspects to find their victims. […] Police say [Geoffrey] Wentzel and Richard Conatser, both ex-cons who know each other from prison, ran a far-reaching identity theft ring….
UK: Oxford Aunts confidential client and employee data dropped in street
The personal details of more than 140 vulnerable pensioners were found on an unencrypted data stick dropped in Oxford city centre. […] The memory stick contained details, including names, addresses and telephone numbers of all the clients of Cornmarket Street-based Oxford Aunts, which provides private nursing care to dozens of elderly and infirm clients across…
(update) Butte reports spike in identity theft
Melanie Yuill reports: Dozens of identity theft cases are being reported in Butte. Butte-Silver Bow Sheriff John Walsh says there are 82 reports of credit card or debit card fraud in the area. The investigation is being handled by the U.S. Secret Service. Sheriff Walsh says the problem appears to be coming from electronic readers…
(follow-up) Fired Fannie Mae contractor sentenced to 41 mos. for attempting to destroy all data on servers
U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced computer programmer Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana, age 36, of Montgomery County, Maryland, today to 41 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for computer intrusion arising from the transmission of malicious script to Fannie Mae’s computer servers. A federal jury convicted Makwana on October 4, 2010….