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A data leak in KOMSCO (Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation) was discovered on Sunday. Resident registration numbers, passport numbers and other personal information of e-passport applicants were lost. The number of victims exceeded 920,000. The list includes some 4,600 civil servants and senior government officials such as the prime minister and other key ministers. The highest security level is applied to the passport manufacturing division of KOMSCO, but the security seals were tapped.

Resident registration numbers, passport numbers and other personal data of e-passport applicants have been leaked from the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation by the staff of a passport issuing machine operator, it emerged on Sunday. The number of victims is an estimated 920,000 people, including some 4,600 civil servants and senior government officials such as the prime minister and other key ministers. The highest security level is applied to the passport manufacturing division of KOMSCO, but the security seal was tapped.

Unknown fraudsters have stolen and published access codes to the Dirt 3 racing game. As reported by Kotaku, with reference to the Steam forum, around 3 million codes had been accessed and distributed. In its turn, Lenta.ru, with reference to Geek.com, reports 1.7 millions of codes.

Melinda Kay Johnson, a former employee of the Washington State Department of Licensing, was sentenced to two years in prison for the crime of conspiracy to commit unlawful production of identification documents.. She sold Washington State ID cards to various conspirators, who then engaged in a bank fraud scheme. Carders then used these IDs to open bank accounts and withdraw stolen money.

A state Department of Licensing employee was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison. Having pleaded guilty helping make fraudulent identification cards, Melinda Kay Johnson sold state ID cards for $3,000 each to others engaged in a bank fraud scheme that cost Bank of America $1 million. Between 2008 and 2010, various conspirators in the scheme obtained identification cards from Johnson in bogus names, and used the identities to open multiple bank accounts in Seattle and Bellevue, and in Las Vegas, Nev., according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office statement.

CALIFORNIA — The medical records of nearly 300,000 Californians have been exposed on the Internet. The firm responsible for the data says it believed the information was protected. Southern California Medical-Legal Consultants put the files on a website it thought only employees could access. But it turns out the information was visible to anyone. The files included descriptions of workers' comp claims and Social Security numbers.

A man in Newcastle in the UK has been jailed for 15 months for a “sophisticated” fraud spree after harvesting data from Facebook and other social networks. Security officials have long cautioned that posting too much personal information online could pose a risk of identity theft, and Iain Wood gave the warnings credibility after the 33 year old racked up £35,000 (approximately AU$54,650) worth of fraud.

NEW YORK - Hao “Howie” Wang, admitted stealing more than $1.1 million from JPMorgan Chase & Co. (“JPMC”) and stealing the identities of four victims.  Wang, 28, pled guilty to grand larceny in the first degree, identity theft in the first degree, falsifying business records in the first degree, forgery in the second degree, and scheme to defraud in the first degree.

Swedish Medical Center is alerting nearly 20,000 current and former employees that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, was accidentally accessible on the Internet for nine weeks. Swedish Medical Center is alerting nearly 20,000 current and former employees that their personal information, including Social Security numbers, was accidentally accessible on the Internet for nine weeks. There is no evidence any of the information has been used for identity theft or other illicit purposes, Swedish said Wednesday.

Millions of personal medical records have been lost by NHS trusts and hospitals, in the latest of a long series of data breaches which include staff losing laptops and memory sticks, and in one case faxing details of patients’ operations to the wrong number. The Information Commissioner will impose fines of up to £500,000 on hard-pressed NHS trusts and hospitals in order to counter what he called a “disturbing” culture in the health service.