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Two groups are potentially most affected — patients’ families and people who donated money to the hospital.
The patient information accessed by the hackers included billing information from office visits to doctors employed by Children’s Hospital. Those records contained personal information, such as Social Security numbers, but did not contain any medical or financial information, the hospital said.
The donor database included bank-account information and routing numbers, though it did not contain Social Security numbers. Credit card information attached to the donor files was encrypted and unreadable to the hackers.
More information about the security breach can be found on Akron Children’s Hospital website.
Source: Centre Daily
Written by MCruz on October 29th, 2006 with no comments.
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Chicago Board of Election officials report that a security vulnerability found on their website would have allowed hackers to access personal data of some voters.
Chicago election officials said Monday they were forced to patch a security flaw on their Web site after a candidate found a programming error that had made private voter information vulnerable to theft for at least five years.
Officials said the glitch never threatened the integrity of election records. But they now have to determine whether anyone exploited the opportunity to steal the Social Security and birth date information from more than 780,000 registered voters in the city.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Written by MCruz on October 24th, 2006 with no comments.
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The Boston retailer, Life is Good has notified its customers that their personal information was accessed by hackers.
The company today disclosed a security breach in which hackers accessed a database containing 9,250 customers’ credit card numbers. The company said no other personal information, such as social security or driver’s license numbers or dates of birth were included in the database and that all affected customers have been notified.
Source: The Boston Globe Thanks for the tip, John!
Written by MCruz on September 20th, 2006 with no comments.
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AT&T’s Online store was hacked over the weekend. Customers who purchased DSL equipment from the online store in the past are exposed to identity theft. Among the data stolen were credit card information along with other personal data.
AT&T Inc. said the system was hacked into over the weekend. The data of “fewer than 19,000 customers” were affected, the company said.
AT&T said it shut down its online store selling the high-speed Internet access equipment and would pay for credit monitoring services for the people whose files were accessed. The San Antonio-based telephone company notified the major credit card companies whose customer accounts were affected.
AT&T is currently investigating the cause of the breach and who was responsible.
Source: Houston Chronicle
Written by MCruz on August 30th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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About 6,000 current and former University of South Carolina (USC) students are being warned that they are at risk of identity theft. Their confidential information was accessed by a hacker last year.
A security audit this summer determined a university computer server was accessed from outside the system in September 2005.
School spokesman Russ McKinney says the intruder could have acquired a database used by the university post office that had the names, Social Security numbers and birthdays of the students.
Source: FOX Carolina
Written by MCruz on August 27th, 2006 with no comments.
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Over 6,000 Madrona Medical Group patients are being warned to watch for identity theft after a former employee was caught accessing and saving patient files into his personal computer. The former employee was arrested and charged with computer trespass.
Madrona officials don’t believe the files were copied or used for identity theft, but they sent letters this week to more than 6,000 patients anyway, asking them to take steps to make sure no one uses the information illegally.
The records include patients’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers and dates of birth.
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Written by MCruz on August 13th, 2006 with no comments.
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