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Alaska’s Hope Community Resources suffers data breach 21 Aug 2013 | 11:55 am
Hope Community Resources (HCR) of Alaska accidently exposed 3,700 disabled patients’ protected health information (PHI) in an email Monday night. The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (D...
Bank of Scotland receives 75K penalty after three year fax blunders 6 Aug 2013 | 02:46 pm
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served the Bank of Scotland with a monetary penalty of 75,000 after customers’ account details were repeatedly faxed to the wrong recipients. The infor...
Walgreens fined $1.44 million for pharmacist data breach 29 Jul 2013 | 05:33 pm
About six months after a Walgreens pharmacist was sentenced to 25 months in prison for patient identity theft, the large pharmacy chain is having more patient privacy issues. The Indianapolis Star rep...
Staff data leaks out of the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) 25 Jul 2013 | 05:55 pm
A serious data breach at the Securities and Exchange Commission transferred personal data about current and former employees into the computer system of another federal agency, a letter sent by the SE...
Disney World fan allegedly steals $50k for 15 trips to Magic Kingdom 18 Jul 2013 | 03:16 pm
Corporate officials of Eddie Merlot’s, whose manager was charged July 2 with stealing customers’ identities, have pledged to “rectify the issue with any affected patron.” In a prepared statement issu...
Ex-inspector at Fort Campbell charged with stealing colleagues' IDs, including slain soldier's 12 Jul 2013 | 03:03 pm
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — A former Fort Campbell inspector whose job was to investigate misconduct was charged Wednesday with stealing the identities of Army personnel, including a soldier killed in comb...
Statement of Public.Resource.Org on IRS web exposure of tens of thousands of SSNs 9 Jul 2013 | 09:48 am
Public.Resource.Org has discovered that the Internal Revenue Service has posted the Social Security Numbers of tens of thousands of Americans on government web sites. The database in question contains...
Insider threat, redux 6 Jul 2013 | 08:36 am
Federal authorities say employees at James A. Haley VA Medical Center and Tampa General Hospital stole patients’ identities in tax fraud schemes. Haley employee David F. Lewis is accused of taking th...
US charges Chinese wind company with stealing trade secret 28 Jun 2013 | 01:23 pm
Chinese wind turbine maker Sinovel Wind Group Co and two of its employees were charged with stealing trade secrets from US-based AMSC by the Department of Justice on Thursday. A federal grand jury in...
Detective's stolen laptop puts thousands at risk of identity theft 25 Jun 2013 | 02:32 pm
The information, which includes Social Security and drivers license numbers, was on a King County sheriff's office computer that was stolen from a detective. The laptop and a personal hard drive were...
