Christen Gowan reports: A medical records clerk from St. Peter’s Hospital was arrested on charges of stealing patients’ personal information and using it to open credit card accounts, police said, and more unknowing victims could be out there. Albany County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Johnathan Harwood, 23, of Van Buren Avenue, on Monday for opening credit…
Credit applications found near store Dumpster
Lisa Beisel reports: Reginald Faust of Annapolis was walking with his wife when he noticed a piece of paper – a credit application for the Room Store, he later realized – on the ground near a Dumpster in the shopping center across from the mall on Jennifer Road. He was one of several walkers in…
Data stolen from 95,000 credit card customers
Kim Mi-ju reports: A single information trafficker managed to steal the personal data of more than 95,000 Korean credit card users – and sell it to thieves who created cloned credit cards, police said Sunday. Police said a Romanian used the Internet to install spyware in point-of-sale systems at 36 large discount stores, restaurants and…
(update) AU: Police in airport swoop on skim suspects
A Malaysian national wanted by Australian police over a huge card-skimming operation has been arrested at Darwin airport. The man had been implicated in a syndicate which allegedly stole money from Victorian teller machines, using data stolen from interstate bank account-holders. The man, 24, was arrested by Australian Customs Service officers at Darwin Airport on…
Survey: Patients May Lie if Electronic Medical Records Are Shared
Katherine Hobson reports: Patients already lie to their doctors. And almost half of respondents in a new survey said if there was any hint their health information — even stripped of identifying details like name or date of birth — would be shared with outside organizations, they might be even less forthcoming. A study on…
Atlassian hacked (update 1)
From the Atlassian company blog: Around 9pm U.S. PST Sunday evening, Atlassian detected a security breach on one of our internal systems. The breach potentially exposed passwords for customers who purchased Atlassian products before July 2008. During July 2008, we migrated our customer database into Atlassian Crowd, our identity management product, and all customer passwords…