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University of California Irvine students are hit with mysterious breach

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2008-04-10 12:14:10 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...California Contractor/Consultant/Branch University of California, Irvine (UCI Victims current and former UCI graduate students and medical students Number Affected more than 100 identified victims at UCI Types of Data Tax information Breach Description April 9 Update: UC Irvine has received more than 100 reports that Social Security...
 
Tags: irvine, irvine police department, police, students, contact campus police, credit agencies, credit, irvine police, medical students
 
 
 
 
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California Backs Off Real ID

2008-03-21 17:00:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
California told the Department of Homeland Security that it may not comply with new federal driver's license rules in a letter sent Tuesday. Though DHS plans to punish small states who won't promise to comply starting May 11, it says Californians will still be able to board planes using their driver's license anyways
 
Tags: federal driver, license, license rules, driver, board planes, dhs plans, california, homeland security, comply
 
 
 
 
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Feds Charge California Woman With Stealing IDs From the Dead

2008-04-17 20:45:00 by Threat Level in Wired Security
 
Prosecutors say a Southern California woman used a genealogy website to target the dearly departed in a ghoulish identity theft scheme
 
Tags: southern california woman, genealogy website, target, dearly, prosecutors
 
 
 
 
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California lawmaker puts Google on notice about missing link to privacy policy

2008-06-12 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A California legislator has sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying that the company is "clearly" violating the state's online privacy law by not posting a link to its privacy policy on its home page
 
Tags: privacy policy, online privacy law, home page, link, california legislator, letter, company
 
 
 
 
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Breach at UCSF gets leadership response

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2008-05-31 10:34:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...California Contractor/Consultant/Branch University of California at San Francisco ("UCSF Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Victims Patients Number Affected 3,569 Types of Data names, dates of pathology service, health information and, in some cases, social security numbers Breach Description The University of California...
 
Tags: information security, information, information security leadership, ucsf, breach, system, system security, ucsf patient records, security
 
 
 
 
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Health care practices and UCSF patient records exposed

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2008-05-07 16:10:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...California Contractor/Consultant/Branch University of California at San Francisco ("UCSF Target America Inc Victims Patients Number Affected 6,313 Types of Data The information included names, addresses, medical departments and some patient medical record numbers Breach Description 05-01) 17:22 PDT San Francisco -- Information on...
 
Tags: ucsf, ucsf patient, ucsf patients, patients, patient, sensitive information, information, patient information, ucsf medical center
 
 
 
 
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Errant email exposed Department of Consumer Affairs personal information

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2008-06-24 17:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...California Contractor/Consultant/Branch Department of Consumer Affairs Victims employees, contractors and board members Number Affected 5,000 Types of Data Names, Social Security numbers, salaries and job titles Breach Description The state Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) has sent letters to 5,000 employees, contractors and board...
 
Tags: information, email, volunteer information lost, wrong email address, email address, information security, adequately protect information, credit cards, credit
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...California , Connecticut , Florida , and Ohio provide some interesting insights about security concerns and vulnerabilities in voting systems from several vendors These analyses are fascinating to us, because they offer an opportunity to see how a set of experts look at products other than ours. Applied security researchers often analyze our...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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The Govenator flexes for privacy!

2007-10-26 14:36:00 by Michael Concordia in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...California governor has come under fire for vetoing a bill that would have required businesses to better protect customer information, he did sign another bill, mandating that California government agencies must truncate taxpayers Social Security numbers, so that no more than four numbers are displayed publicly. He also signed a third bill,...
 
Tags: information, personal information, protect customer information, health insurance information, data breaches, data, social security, medical privacy laws, taxpayers social security
 
 
 
 
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51,000 Current and former Agilent Technologies employees at risk

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2008-03-25 09:13:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog