Cybercriminals, Insiders May Work Together To Attack Businesses For 19 months, an employee at Johns Hopkins Hospital allegedly stole patients’ identities, feeding the information to four outsiders who used the data to charge more than $600,000 in goods on store credit. Jasmine Amber Smith, 25, has been charged with using her inside access to fuel the identity theft ring. Employees working with cybercriminals might not be the norm for security breaches, but it’s not a rare crime, either, experts say.

Identity Theft Council Aims To Bring “Neighborhood Watch” Concept To Cybersecurity Despite millions of dollars in spending and millions of hours in training, identity theft has become more widespread in 2010 than at any point in history. Maybe, a new industry group suggests, it’s time to take a different approach. The Identity Theft Council, a new consortium of business and law enforcement entities that launched earlier this week in San Francisco, proposes to attack the ID theft problem in reverse: Instead of going global, it’s going local — and personal

10|04|2010 4:44 pm EDT Collateral Damage of Identity Theft in the Domain Space by Adam Strong in Categories: Legal Issues – 0 Comments I’ve been working with Mike Berkens this weekend on a breaking story that has some scary ramifications for the domain industry.

Newly Discovered World Cup Database Breach Exposed 250,000 Attendees’ Details Hundreds of thousands of attendees at the 2006 World Cup in Germany were put at risk of identity theft, though the major breach of a FIFA database was only recently uncovered. Initially reported by Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, the breach came to light when an employee of the firm in charge of World Cup 2010 ticketing circulated an e-mail peddling more than 250,000 2006 World Cup customer details, including such personal information as birth dates and passport information. ..

Healthcare Suffers More Data Breaches Than Financial Services So Far This Year Healthcare data breaches have swollen in 2010: Identity Theft Resource Center reports show that compromised data stores from healthcare organizations far outstrip other verticals this year.

Personal data of 170 million Facebook users exposed, collected, and shared without any hacking Using publicly available information on Facebook, a researcher has been able to gather personal details of nearly 170 million users of the service, or about a third of all users. The data includes names, addresses, e-mails, phone numbers, and birthdays: essentially anything that was not marked as private is now part of this file

White House Unveils Cybersecurity Plans In the murky world of the Internet, how do you ever really know who you’re talking to, who you’re buying from or if your bank can actually tell it’s you when you log in to pay a bill? Amid growing instances of identity theft, bank account breaches and sophisticated Internet scams, the government is looking for ways to make those transactions in cyberspace more secure. ..