Remember when FTC went after Lifelock for failure to comply with an earlier consent order? And remember when I quoted Lifelock’s 10-Q SEC filing that mentioned the issue but reported: As a result of those discussions, we have accrued $20,000 as of December 31, 2014 for a possible settlement with the FTC. The ultimate resolution of the matter could result…
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UK: Optimal Payments says investigating data breach allegations
Mamidipudi Soumithri reports: British mobile payments company Optimal Payments Plc said it was investigating allegations that personal data belonging to some of its customers had been compromised and was available in the public domain. Optimal shares fell 11 percent to 309.5 pence, their sharpest fall in a day this year and lowest since Sept….
British Gas responds to data dump: not our data
Barry Cooper reports: More than two thousand British Gas customers have had their personal details posted online after a security breach. The energy firm has moved to reassure the 2,200 customers affected that despite email addresses and account passwords being placed online, their bank account information has not been put at risk. While no credit card information…
NY: Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center Data Breach Announced
HIPAA Journal reports: The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) has sent breach notification letters to 1,581 patients of its Brooklyn Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, after a laptop computer was discovered to have been stolen. The laptop computer was password protected, but data stored on its hard drive had not been encrypted. As…
NV: Lab Tech Charged With Stealing Patient Information And Using It To Apply For Credit Cards
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – A local woman who worked as a laboratory technician at an unnamed Las Vegas pediatric cardiology practice has been indicted by the federal grand jury on charges that she unlawfully obtained the personal identifying information of a patient and used it to apply for credit cards without the patient’s knowledge, announced…
NZ: Court decision puts Hager back in frame
David Fisher reports: Dirty Politics author Nicky Hager may face criminal charges over accepting the hacked material used to write the bombshell book, according to documents obtained by the Herald. Police will not say whether the investigative journalist is again a suspect, instead of simply a witness, after a pivotal Supreme Court decision which ruled computer files…