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• Former Jefferson Parish Assistant District Attorney Sentenced for Unauthorized Access to Information by Use of a Computer

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 149
  As a follow-up to a breach reported in September , the Department of Justice  has issued the following press release: PERRY BOOTH, IV, age 44, a resident of Gretna, Louisiana, was sentenced today in federal court by the Honorable Helen G. Berrigan to two (2) years probation and ordered to pay a $3,000 fine for ...
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• Former Morgan Stanley Coder Gets 2 Years in Prison for TJX Hack

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 734
  Stephen Watt The two great friends talked every day and shared information about all of their exploits — sexual, narcotic and hacking — according to prosecutors. Now another thing they’ll have to share information about is their experience in federal prison. While accused TJX hacker kingpin Albert Gonzalez ...
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• Texas to destroy baby blood taken without consent

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 135
  Jay Root of the Associated Press reports:Texas health authorities will destroy as many as four million blood samples taken from babies without parental consent and stored indefinitely for scientific research.The Texas Department of State Health Services announced Tuesday it would destroy the samples after settling a ...
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• An E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 149
  Ed Bayley of EFF writes: As we count down to end of 2009, the emerging star of this year’s holiday shopping season is shaping up to be the electronic book reader (or e-reader). From Amazon’s Kindle to Barnes and Noble’s forthcoming Nook, e-readers are starting to transform how we buy and read books in the same ...
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• Craigslist ATM I bought Causes Industry Stir

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 120
  Robert Siciliano  Identity Theft Expert Apparently I raised a hackle or two . Seems my little stunt got the attention of industry insiders, and not all of them believe that I bought a used ATM on Craigslist , which turned out to contain thousands of credit card numbers. Well, it did actually happen, and despite ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• 7-Eleven Hack From Russia Led to ATM Looting in New York

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 734
  Flashback, early 2008: Citibank officials are witnessing a huge spike in fraudulent withdrawals from New York area ATMs — $180,000 is stolen from cash machines on the Upper East Side in just three days.  After a stakeout, police arrest one man walking out of a bank with thousands of dollars in cash and 12 ...
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• Albert Gonzalez Enters Plea Agreement in Heartland, Hannaford Cases

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 734
  Albert Gonzalez, who has admitted hacking into TJX and other companies, has filed a plea agreement in charges that he breached Heartland Payment Systems, Hannaford, 7-Eleven and two other companies. Under the terms of the agreement, Gonzalez, a former Secret Service informant, will plead guilty to two counts of ...
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• Spyware snags Akron Children’s Hospital patient and employee info

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 135
  The Associated Press reports that Scott Graham of Ohio faces prison time after pleading guilty in federal court to felony charges of intercepting electronic communications by using spyware to spy on a woman’s computer activities. By spying on her, he also accidentally retrieved confidential information from the ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Levi’s tags: more than just your jeans

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 149
  I’m confident that Levis.com is not the only web site of concern, but this case study suggests that the public really often has no clue how their information is being tracked or used: Dwyer, Catherine Ann, Behavioral Targeting: A Case Study of Consumer Tracking on Levis.com (August 6, 2009). Abstract: ...
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• UK: Reprieve for the dentist who lost 10,000 records

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 135
  Amanda Crook reports:A dentist who lost the records of 10,000 patients will be allowed to continue working.Omer Butt left computers and filing cabinets in a van parked on a road in Cheetham Hill while his practice Unsworth Smile Clinic, in Prestwich, was being refurbished. The van and the private dental records were ...
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• Gloucester woman jailed in second ID theft case

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 149
  Ever see a coffee mug or t-shirt with a sweet message about sisters being best friends?  We probably won’t  find any  in one Gloucester family, where one sister has used her sister’s identity when charged with crimes – twice.   Indeed, the very first sentence in the news report give s a clue that we’re ...
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• Attorney for doctors in WDH privacy breach disputes AG’s finding

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 135
  Adam D. Krauss continues to update us on this case:An attorney for two doctors impacted by the privacy breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital says the Office of the Attorney General would have found WDH had to notify patients if the state knew a rogue employee accessed patients’ social security numbers and sensitive ...
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• B.C. civil servant accused of sending personal data to U.S. border guard

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 149
  More from CanWest on a Canadian breach reported yesterday: A B.C. government employee under investigation for an alleged privacy breach is accused of e-mailing personal data about government clients to an American border guard in Washington state. Government sources confirmed Friday that the employee, who works ...
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• UK: Shropshire Council found in breach of the Data Protection Act

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 135
  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Shropshire Council in breach of the Data Protection Act following the loss of an unencrypted memory stick containing sensitive information relating to a large number of adult social care clients and members of staff.The memory stick, which contained a social care ...
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• Lack of Laptop Security Leads to Identity Theft

  
  Identity Theft Expert Speaker Protection Prevention Resource Blog — Authority: 120
  Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert In 2003, an estimated 1.5 million laptops were stolen worldwide. Today, that number has climbed to 2.6 million. That’s a 70% increase in just a few years. That’s one stolen laptop every 12 seconds. Laptop computers have been the source of some of the biggest data ...
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• TJX Hacker ‘Will Never Commit Any Crime Again’

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 734
  Confessed hacker Albert Gonzalez’s turn as a Secret Service informant led him down a dark path of obsession, culminating in the largest identity-theft spree in history. Frances Gonzalez Lago, Gonzalez’s sister wrote his sentencing judge that her brother’s work as an informant for the agency between 2003 and and ...
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• So where are the breach reports on HHS?

  
  Personal Health Information Privacy — Authority: 135
  Under the provisions of the HITECH Act that went into effect several months ago, covered entities are required to report breaches involving the unsecured protected health information of 500 or more individuals to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Unfortunately, HHS watered down the ...
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• Twitter DNS Hacked, Redirected

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 153
  Twitter’s website went offline for about an hour Thursday, with many tweeters redirected to a defacement page boasting “This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army.” Twitter acknowledged the 10 p.m. takeover, one in a series of security lapses to hit the popular microbloging service. Twitter said its DNS ...
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