In response to a breach discovered on January 12, Rosenthal Wine Shop (Castle Creek Properties, Inc., dba Rosenthal the Malibu Estates) is notifying customers that malware may have compromised their payment card information: We recently learned that unauthorized individuals or entities installed malicious software on computer systems used to process credit card transactions at the Rosenthal wine…
Month: March 2014
HealthPartners: Insurance client data was breached 2008-10
Christopher Snowbeck reports: Bloomington-based HealthPartners is sending letters to about 38,000 health plan members regarding a privacy breach that occurred between 2008 and 2010. The breach involved a HealthPartners employee who wrongly shared information with a family member in order to get help formatting files to prepare quality improvement reports, according to a news release…
UK: ICO decides against probe of Santander email spam scammers
John Leyden reports: Santander customers say they are continuing to be deluged with Trojans and other junk to email addresses exclusively used with the bank months after the problem first surfaced back in November. At least two Reg readers have put in complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office. But the data privacy watchdog told us that it has “insufficient…
AU: Labor resurrects data breach notification bill
Allie Coyne reports: A Labor senator this week re-introduced proposed legislation governing mandatory notifications for companies suffering a data breach, in an attempt to resurrect a bill which failed to pass before the last federal election. Tasmanian Labor Senator and parliamentary secretary to the Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus Lisa Singh introduced to the bill into the Senate…
LabMD files suit against FTC in Georgia
Well, they said that they’d be filing again soon, and they have. Yesterday, LabMD filed a lawsuit in federal court in Georgia against the FTC that challenges its authority. For those first catching up with the legal issues, the guts of their main arguments are contained in this paragraph in their complaint: Even if Section…
Does Walgreens’ New Up-Close-And-Personal Pharmacy Approach Violate Privacy Laws?
Chris Morran writes: In an effort intended to provide pharmacy customers a less impersonal experience, some Walgreens stores have been redesigned to get pharmacists out in the store, consulting with customers at desks, without the traditional counter (and sometimes panes of bulletproof glass) between them. But the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services wants…