Back in May, Saint Anselm College notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a spring 2010 mailing of its alumni newsletter had inadvertently exposed SSN of 122 New Hampshire residents on the mailing labels. This month, Saint Anselm notified the office that it seemed that the exposure problem had occurred as early as its…
When your database of all staff is on a flash drive that goes missing…
On boy…. On September 9, Cooper University Hospital in New Jersey notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a flash drive with a database of employees’ personal information was discovered missing on July 8, less than 24 hours after the database had been copied to the drive. The drive went missing from the Graduate…
IL: Cardholders Missing Thousands in Bogus ATM Withdrawals
Charlie Wojciechowski reported this Wednesday, so by now the numbers may be higher: Thieves have stolen money through unauthorized ATM transactions more than 30 times since Sunday, suburban police departments say. Buffalo Grove police said they’ve fielded 20 complaints from residents who’ve said they’ve lost thousands of dollars…. There have also been at least 15…
Janitor at L.A. County health clinic allegedly stole files for recycling money
Molly Hennessy-Fiske reports: A janitor at the Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center in Willowbrook has been charged with felony commercial burglary for allegedly selling 14 boxes of patient records to a recycling center, authorities said Thursday. The boxes contained computer printouts of about 30,000 patient names, addresses, phone numbers and medical record…
61% of data losses are malicious – Imperva
Research just released claims that malicious intent is behind 62% of data losses, with insider breaches accounting for 33% and hackers accounting for 29% of noted incidents. The study of more than 1100 US and international IT security professionals also found that the remaining data losses were accidental in nature. According to Imperva, the IT…
Data breaches remain high
Jeff Blumenthal reviews some stats on breach reports with a local eye to Pennsylvania and New Jersey in this news story. A snippet: Sasha Romanosky, a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University whose research revolves around data breaches, said Pennsylvania and New Jersey are slightly above the national average for rate of reported identity theft,…