A press release from the California Attorney General’s Office: A Citrus Heights computer hacker pleaded guilty to seven felony charges for breaking into hundreds of women’s e-mail accounts, the sort of identity theft crime that Californians should take steps to protect themselves against, according to Attorney General Kamala D. Harris. “This case highlights the fact…
Category: Breaches
Second Circuit limits the right to medical privacy
We normally associate the constitutional right to privacy with abortion and other child-bearing and (and related) concepts. But that right also covers the right to avoid disclosure of certain personal matters, including medical information. This case asks whether a New York City schoolteacher could sue the Board of Education for publicizing her fibromyalgia. The answer…
Your personal data in the wrong hands
Fabio Assolini of Kaspersky writes: What happens when all of your personal data is readily available for use by a cybercriminal? Last November we published a blog talking about Brazilian phishing attacks that displayed the victims’ CPF numbers – the Natural Persons Register, the equivalent of a Social Security Number used by the Brazilian government to…
Man who hacked Palin’s email gets jail, not halfway house
A man who broke into Sarah Palin’s e-mail has been imprisoned – despite being told he might be spared jail. David Kernell, 23, was found guilty last year of illegally accessing Mrs Palin’s e-mail during the 2008 presidential campaign. At the time, a judge suggested he should serve his year-long sentence in a halfway house….