There’s a follow-up to a breach covered previously on this site involving a data leak from the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo. The Tokyo District Court ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to pay 90 million yen (around $860,000) in damages to 17 Muslims for the breach of privacy lawsuit they filed against the city. Around 114 documents were leaked…
Month: January 2014
Credit Card Receipts from Bay Area Old Navy Store Mistakenly Shipped to Shopper in Upstate New York
Ah, that pesky human error strikes again. Marianne Favro reports: Attention, Old Navy shoppers: Your credit card receipt, with full account number and signature, may have ended up in a random mailbox in Upstate New York. Anita Vogel lives in West Seneca, New York, near Buffalo. She recently received a package in the mail containing…
Bipartisan senators introduce data security bill
Julian Hattem reports: Lawmakers in the Senate are unveiling a new data security bill that aims to protect consumers from having their identities stolen or being harmed by fraud. Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said that recent data breaches at major U.S. retailers have highlighted the need for added standards to protect…
NY: Rockville Centre woman sentenced for role in ID theft scam
Zachary R. Dowdy reports: A Rockville Centre woman was sentenced Wednesday to serve 11/2 to 3 years in state prison for her role in a scheme that stole hundreds of people’s identities to file fraudulent tax returns that yielded refunds and to apply for credit cards under the victims’ names, authorities said. Susan Pemberton, who…
Google ads targeting Canadians using personal health info violate Canadian privacy law – Privacy Commissioner
The Canadian Press reports: Canada’s interim privacy commissioner says Google has been caught afoul of the law by displaying web ads linked to a person’s health history. An investigation led by Chantal Bernier, who has stepped in for outgoing privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, backed up a man’s complaints that he was seeing so-called behavioural advertisements…
Who hacked Nordstrom?
Will Phoenix writes: Unlike the hackers who recently hit Target and Nieman Marcus, authorities know exactly who hacked Nordstrom. According to the U.S. Attorney’s office two brothers identified as Andrew S. Chiu, 29, of Anaheim, California; and Allen J. Chiu, 37, of Dallas, Texas utilized a mix of business logic attacks and fraudulent actions to…