Nick Cahill reports: Despite a 2013 audit revealing significant information security flaws, the Judicial Council of California hasn’t improved its control systems and remains “unacceptably” at risk for data breaches, according to a follow-up audit. The council’s case management records and human resources data are specifically jeopardized because of its failure to implement recommendations from…
Month: December 2015
House Financial Services Committee Passes Data Security Bill
NACS writes: On December 8, the House Financial Services Committee convened to mark up and subsequently pass legislation opposed by NACS: the Data Security Act of 2015 (H.R. 2205). Introduced by Representative Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), the bill would establish a national data security and breach notification standard that would impose enormous costs on most industries…
Russian Man Involved in Carder.su Gets 9 Years in Federal Prison in ID Theft Case
AP reports: A Russian citizen was sentenced in Las Vegas to nine years in federal prison and ordered to pay a share of $50 million in restitution after pleading guilty to racketeering and identity theft in a worldwide cybercrime organization. U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said Wednesday that Alexander Kostyukov also faces three years of supervised…
Global survey by Gemalto reveals impact of data breaches on customer loyalty
AMSTERDAM – December 10, 2015 – Nearly two-thirds (64%) of consumers surveyed worldwide say they are unlikely to shop or do business again with a company that had experienced a breach where financial information was stolen, and almost half (49%) had the same opinion when it came to data breaches where personal information was stolen. This is according to…
OPM hit for mishandling data breach cleanup
Tal Koppan reports: The federal agency that had more than 21 million Americans’ personal information stolen in a massive hack is once again in congressional cross-hairs — this time for improperly doling out taxpayer dollars to protect those Americans after the data breach. The Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general released a report this month,…
Ca: Federal departments reported 256 data breaches in 2014-15
Leslie Young reports: Federal institutions reported 256 data breaches in 2014-15, according to the annual report from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. That’s up from 228 breaches the year before – which was double the number from the year before that. Read more on Global News.