The Home Office has had to dramatically revise its estimates of the amount of data contained on a memory stick lost by third-party contractor PA Consulting last year. The department’s newly released Resource Accounts for 2008-09 (PDF) say that the USB device containing Police National Computer and prisoner data actually held 377,000 records, 250,000 more…
Confidential documents found by Worthing Town Hall bins
Confidential council papers containing residents’ bank details and addresses have been found dumped outside a town hall. The documents also include information about an investigation into flytipping, a bill to a letting agents for cockroach extermination and a document relating to a fraud interview. Read more in The Argus
‘The Analyzer’ Pleads Guilty in $10 Million Bank Hacking Case
Ehud Tenenbaum, aka “The Analyzer,” quietly pleaded guilty last week to a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks. The Israeli hacker was arrested in Canada last year for allegedly stealing about $1.5 million from Canadian banks. But before…
Florida man sentenced for passport and ID theft charges
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and James Foster, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service, announced that defendant Gregory Victor Revson, 49, of Islamorada, FL, was sentenced on August 20, 2009, by U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro to 75 months of imprisonment,…
4 years in prison for hospital worker
As a follow-up to a case covered previously: A hospital worker who admitted to stealing about 20 patient records a week out of Saint Anthony Hospital to give them to a convicted counterfeiter was sentenced on Monday to four years in the Department of Corrections. Dawn Philbin, 51, reached a plea deal in Denver County…
Residents’ data lost in stolen council laptops
Residents’ personal data held by North Somerset Council has gone missing after laptops were stolen. It remains unknown whether or not the device on which the confidential details were held was protected. The local authority is yet to encrypt all of its mobile electronic equipment. A total of thirteen council laptops have been stolen over…