Levi Pulkkinen reports that a disgruntled ex-employee is charged with computer sabotage: In charging documents, King County prosecutors contend Ricardo T. Valencia, 35, broke into the World Vision server system in the week preceding July 3. The malicious conduct, prosecutors allege, continued in the following weeks, ultimately costing the international children’s charity $12,500 in repairs….
Laptop With Personal Information Stolen From Aurora St. Luke’s
A Milwaukee hospital is warning thousands of its patients that personal information about them may have been stolen. The theft happened at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center on Milwaukee’s south side. More than 6,000 people, who were in-patients here at St. Luke’s will be getting a letter in the mail. It warns them that their…
MN: Identity theft cases prompt action by Department of Commerce
The Minnesota Department of Commerce is cracking down on identify theft in the state, targeting two collections agencies and a title insurance company in recent investigations. The department has accused the three companies – Morris Abstract & Title Inc. of New Prague, HS and Associates of South St. Paul and First Financial Services Inc. of…
Update: BCBS of Tennessee to start sending notifications
John Commins updates us on the Tennessee BlueCross BlueShield breach: BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is readying a Nov. 30 mass mailing to some of its 3.1 million customers in the Volunteer State who may have had their Social Security numbers and other private data compromised after an Oct. 2 hard drive theft at a remote…
TX: Hospital workers fired for snooping
As an update on the firing of 16 employees of the Harris County Hospital District, KTRK in Houston reports that the employees were from different facilities: nine from Ben Taub, six from Northwest Community Center and one from Holly Hall. And it seems that my hunch that it was a snooping violation was correct. KTRK…
Risky business: Remote Desktop opened the door for Aloha hackers
When nine restaurants in Louisiana and Mississippi filed lawsuits against Radiant Systems and its Louisiana distributor, they may have represented only the tip of a substantial iceberg of hacks affecting restaurants that used Radiant Systems’ Aloha POS system. It seems that the scope of the problem is first coming to the public’s attention approximately one…