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NC loan processor sentenced for ID theft
November 17, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
A former loan processor was sentenced Friday to to one year and one day imprisonment for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox also ordered Maria Lorena Croll, 24, of Raleigh, North Carolina, to pay restitution of $2,138.52.
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Federal Data Security Law: ‘Careful What You Wish For’
November 12, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
A federal cybersecurity law edged closer to reality late last week when the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill to protect the personal data of Americans. The bill is a bipartisan effort sponsored by Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and co-sponsored by former Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that would, among other things, force companies and data brokers to institute data privacy and security p...
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Government accused of ‘cover up’ over lost farmer tapes
November 06, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been accused of a “cover up” after two back-up tapes went missing containing the banking details of around 100,000 farmers.
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Senate Panel Clears Data Breach Bills
November 05, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved two companion bills that would require businesses and government agencies to notify individuals of security breaches involving sensitive personally identifiable information. Both bills go to the Senate for consideration.
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MA: Williams College laptop stolen; 750 notified
November 05, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Williams College in Williamstown reports a recent laptop theft. The laptop, which was stolen when an employee left it in a parked car in Boston on October 3, contained the names and Social Security numbers of 750 individuals from 39 states and several foreign countries.
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Man charged with developing and distributing cable network hacking tools
November 02, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Charges were unsealed in federal court in Massachusetts against an Oregon man and the company he founded, TCNISO, alleging that they developed and distributed products that allowed users to modify their cable modems and obtain internet access without paying for it.
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Metadata In State Documents Are Public Record, Court Rules
October 30, 2009 from: hackyourself.net
Arizona’s Supreme Court, in a surprising but welcome ruling, has declared that electronic metadata is part of the public record under state law, in a case involving an Arizona police officer who suspects his superiors of back-dating a document related to his work performance.
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Judge: FTC Cannot Make Lawyers Comply With Identity Theft Laws
October 29, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The Federal Trade Commission cannot force practicing lawyers to comply with new regulations aimed at curbing identity theft, a federal judge ruled today at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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Coalition for Patient Privacy Calls on HHS to Repeal the Breach Notification Rule
October 28, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The Coalition for Patient Privacy urges the Department of Health and Human Services to revise and repeal the interim final rule (IFR) establishing requirements for notification of breaches of unsecured protected health information.
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LifeLock barred from placing fraud alerts in Experian settlement
October 22, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
LifeLock Inc. and Experian Information Solutions Inc. have settled their lawsuit, and the agreement permanently blocks the original process LifeLock used to protect its clients.
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FTC settles latest charges against ChoicePoint
October 19, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
ChoicePoint, Inc., one of the nation’s largest data brokers, has agreed to strengthened data security requirements to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the company failed to implement a comprehensive information security program protecting consumers’ sensitive information, as required by a previous court order. This failure left the door open to a data breach in 2008 that co...
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Retail sales associates sentenced for role in credit card, bank fraud
October 16, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Four men from Atlanta Georgia were sentenced this week by United States District Judge Orinda D. Evans on charges of bank fraud, credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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Lawsuit: 29,000 say Kaiser hid security breach
October 15, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
Twenty-nine thousand Kaiser employees say the company did not inform them for more than a year about a security breach that left their personal information vulnerable to thieves. One employee says a woman stole her identity and used it to run up credit-card charges and “commit crimes across the country.”
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Passenger Advocate Sues Delta for Allegedly Hacking Her E-Mail
October 13, 2009 from: hackyourself.net
An airline passenger advocate has accused Delta Airlines of hacking her e-mail accounts and computer in order to sabotage her organization’s lobbying efforts to pass federal legislation to help stranded fliers, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas Tuesday.
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Operation Phish Phry reels in 100 in U.S. and Egypt
October 07, 2009 from: Office of Inadequate Security
The largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime case have been indicted in a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that uncovered a sophisticated “phishing” operation that fraudulently collected personal information from thousands of victims that was used to defraud American banks.
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PayPal Suspends Researcher’s Account For Distributing Hacking Tools
October 07, 2009 from: hackyourself.net
A security researcher who disclosed a serious vulnerability in online certificates has been blocked from accessing his PayPal account after someone released a counterfeit PalPal certificate he created for a professional training session.