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Man indicted in probe of UMC hospital privacy leak

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Dissent

Marshall Allen reports on the latest development in a UMC breach discussed on this site in the past: A man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in an alleged conspiracy to pay a University Medical Center employee for private information about traffic accident victims that was used to drum up clients. The indictment…

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Flawed Assumptions in the Albert Gonzalez Case

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Dissent

Evan Schuman of StorefrontBacktalk has a column over on CBS News that points out some of the flaws in lawyers’ arguments revolving around the Albert Gonzalez case, such as arguments that disclosure of retailers’ names would hurt their stock prices. Evan points out what those of us who track breaches know all too well: there…

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Cracking Open Genetic Privacy

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Dissent

Margaret R. McLean, Ph.D., is director of bioethics and associate director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University.  She writes: Almost a decade after the Human Genome Project cracked the genetic code, the wall of privacy surrounding genetic information may be developing a few cracks of its own. This is not such…

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State Agency ID Theft May Affect 11,000

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Dissent

The following news report on a breach involving a Connecticut state agency seems to be equating theft of PII with identity theft, a problem we’ve seen all too many times, although there may be cases of ID theft associated with this breach. On Monday, Office of Policy Management Secretary Robert Genuario announced that as many…

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Wiseguys indicted in $25 million CAPTCHA-bot scheme

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Dissent

NEWARK – Three men who used fraud, deceit, and computer hacking to make more than $25 million by acquiring and reselling more than 1.5 million of the most coveted tickets to concerts, sporting events, and live entertainment throughout the United States surrendered to federal authorities this morning after being charged in an Indictment, U.S. Attorney…

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Lawrence Welk Resort Furious with Visa

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Dissent

Elizabeth Banicki reports: The Lawrence Welk Resort says a tech company disabled its computer security system, making 1,427 customers’ credit cards vulnerable to ID theft. Welk says it paid Micros Systems $100,000 for the botched job, to “ensure compliance with evolving Visa and other industry security standards,” and that Visa, for “no legitimate reason,” ordered…

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