A Long Island shoe store employee is accused of stealing security information from customers’ credit cards and making duplicate cards. Police say the cashier at a Bellmore Payless store used a “skimming” device to scan the magnetic strip of security information from the credit cards of 11 customers. Police say he used the cards to…
FBI to investigate AT&T iPad data breach
Claudine Beaumont reports: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that it will be examining the circumstances surrounding a security breach of AT&T’s network that exposed the email addresses of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad owners. “The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation to address this potential cyberthreat,”…
Ie: Proposed Data Security Breach Code of Practise
Brian Honan, who has often contributed news leads and links to this site, blogs about the proposed breach notification law in Ireland: As someone who has been campaigning for mandatory data breach disclosure laws in Ireland for a number of years I am pleased to see the proposed Data Security Breach Code of Practise from…
(follow-up) Latvians to be deported for role in Davidson Companies extortion plot
Some breaches continue to tie up resources for years. The Davidson Companies breach, first revealed in January 2008, seems to be one of them. Even though the lawsuit against the firm was settled in November, in April, FINRA fined them, and some attempted extortionists were indicted. Now there’s yet another update to the story. Travis…
NY: Widow Says Cops Leaked Suicide Note
Barbara Leonard reports: A widow claims that state police released her husband’s suicide note the media, along with private letters he left for the family. The widow and her children sued New York State Police Officer Steven Nutting and several Officer Does on constitutional claims in Federal Court. On the night in May 2008 when…
Hospital, uni in blame game over research breach
Julie Robotham reports: Sydney Children’s Hospital and the University of NSW have blamed each other for a spectacular governance failure which saw the medical records of disabled children used in student research without their parents’ consent or approval from either institution. The university said it stopped the research in 2007 when it first came to…