Nick Gardner reports: The identity crimes report, which was commissioned by credit company Veda Advantage and conducted by Galaxy Research, found more than 1.5 million people’s credit cards had been skimmed and 1.2 million people’s bank accounts were illegally accessed. Many more people’s mail containing PINs and other information that can be used to create…
Month: October 2009
Hackers Breach Payroll Giant, Target Customers
Brian Krebs reports: Hackers last week apparently used stolen account information from a New Jersey company that provides online payroll services to target the firm’s customers in a scheme to steal passwords and other information. […] Unlike typical so-called “phishing” scams — which are sent indiscriminately to large numbers of people in the hopes that…
Canada: Privacy an erroneous excuse for withholding HIV status
As a follow-up to a situation previously described here, there was an editorial in today’s Regina Leader-Post: It qualifies as a “medical error” of sorts. No, we’re not talking about a bungled procedure, but the refusal of health-care workers to tell a Saskatoon woman her boyfriend was HIV positive. Frantic with worry after an immunodeficiency…