Damall Keith reports: It was thrown away like trash, folders full of personal information. What do you think? Is your social security number, salary and employment information trash? One company now has some explaining to do after private files were found in a dumpster. ”Copies of drivers license, copies of social security cards, banking information,”…
Month: July 2014
CT: Westport Cellphone Store Worker Arrested in ID Theft
A 23-year-old New York man turned himself into police after learning there was a warrant for his arrest for allegedly selling personal information gathered while working at a Westport cellphone store, police said. Stefano Pascente of Richmond Hills, N.Y. was arrested Wednesday after an investigation that began in December 2013, police said. Court documents showed…
Data breach at Welsh health board after patient details sent to wrong address
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in breach of the Data Protection Act after sensitive information was sent to the wrong address. The information was disclosed when eight letters about patients were sent to one of the people affected in July 2013. The letters should have been sent to…
Advocate Health Shakes Class Action Over Data Breach
From the no-surprise-there dept.: An Illinois state court on Thursday tossed a putative class action over a data breach at Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp., ruling that the plaintiffs needed to prove that their data had actually been misused in order to sustain their claims. Read more on Law360.com (paywall)
Privacy breach in British Columbia's prescription system
News 1130 reports: There has been a major privacy breach in BC’s prescription medication dispensing information system. About 1,600 people’s personal information has been accessed. The Ministry of Health says an audit has found the breach happened sometime between March 9th and June 19th of this year when someone used a doctor’s PharmaNet account without…
Houstonian Hotel suffers security breach, credit card information may have been exposed
Olivia Pusinelli reports: The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa told guests this week it suffered a six-month “malicious software attack” that could have exposed credit card information, according to reports. The Houston Chronicle and KTRK ABC 13 report that the attack lasted from Dec. 28 to June 20 and that the U.S. Secret Service notified the hotel of…