Incidents

Hancock Fabrics ATM Fraud

November 23rd, 2009

 - Bank customers in California, Wisconsin and Missouri are reporting fraudulent ATM withdrawals that police say are tied to transactions conducted with the Hancock Fabrics retail chain.In California, Napa Police Department spokesman Brian McGovern says 60 (continue reading...)

Germany in credit card recall

November 23rd, 2009

 - More than 100,000 German credit cards are being replaced after fears that personal data has been stolen, German press reports say.The reports say that the Volks- and Raiffeisenbank group alone is recalling 60,000 cards.Fraudsters are (continue reading...)

Personal info at risk when items go missing

November 23rd, 2009

 - The personal information of taxpayers may be at risk because of a series of security breaches at the Canada Revenue Agency.Documents obtained by Ottawa researcher Ken Rubin reveal that lost mail, missing shipments of computers (continue reading...)

Personal data of Cal Poly Pomona applicants inadvertently put online

November 23rd, 2009

 - The Social Security numbers, home addresses and phone contacts for at least 300 students who applied for admission to Cal Poly Pomona six years ago were unintentionally disclosed online, the university said today.The applicants were (continue reading...)

Lost hard drive may contain personal data of 60k soldiers

November 23rd, 2009

 - The Corps of Engineers is investigating the recent loss of an external hard drive that could pose identify theft problems for as many as 60,000 soldiers and Army civilians.Major Mark Young, a Corps of Engineers (continue reading...)

80,000 Mailers Sent Out With Recipients’ Social Security Numbers In Plain View

November 23rd, 2009

 - Check your mailbox. Thousands of Pennsylvanians could become victims of identity theft just because a piece of mail has been sent to their homes. Right on the front of the piece of mail, in (continue reading...)

TADGEAR Inc Breach Notice

November 23rd, 2009

 - This notice is to inform our customers of a security incident at TAD Gear.We recently learned that our database was illegally accessed from an external source, and it appears that some customer data were taken, (continue reading...)

Hospitals tighten security on patient data

November 23rd, 2009

 - More than half of the nation's hospitals and health care providers surveyed intend to buy more cybersecurity tools to safeguard against breaches of electronic medical records as a result of requirements in the economic stimulus (continue reading...)

FBI looking at UMC records leak

November 23rd, 2009

 - The FBI said Friday it may investigate a breach of patient privacy laws at University Medical Center, where hospital officials are reeling with the realization that at least one of their employees has leaked confidential (continue reading...)

Woman Sentenced For Stealing Patients Info

November 23rd, 2009

 - A woman who worked as a patient services coordinator for Johns Hopkins Medicine has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing patient information. Thirty-one-year-old Michelle Courtney Johnson of Baltimore was also ordered (continue reading...)

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