Missouri businesses would be required to notify consumers when their personal or financial information is compromised in security breaches, under a bill that received initial approval Wednesday from the Missouri Senate. Sen. Scott Rupp, R-Wentzville, sponsored Senate Bill 207 as a way to inform consumers of security breaches that could result in identity theft or…
Month: April 2009
Xcel Energy notifies employees of small, contained breach
Through its lawyers, Xcel Energy notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that an email error by an employee resulted in the names and Social Security numbers of a number of employees being distributed to other Xcel employees and managers who should not have received the Social Security numbers. The company’s internal investigation indicated…
Laptop stolen contained information of 1,000 Santa Cruz patients
Sandra Gonzales reports: A laptop computer recently stolen at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s Santa Cruz office contained personal and medical information of 1,000 Santa Cruz County patients. As a result, officials at the Medical Foundation’s sent out notices March 23 alerting the patients of the theft that happened about a month ago, said foundation…