When Zaxby’s Franchising Inc. announced that it was investigating the possible exfiltration of customer card information at 108 of their franchises, I contacted them to try to get more information. Unfortunately, their answers do not really shed additional light. In a statement to DataBreaches.net, spokesperson Debbie Andrews did not directly answer the question as to…
Author: Dissent
GPS In Pill Bottles? NYPD Wants To Combat NYC Prescription Drug Theft With Devices
Tom Hays reports: Police in New York City plan to combat the theft of painkillers and other highly addictive prescription medicines by asking pharmacies to hide fake pill bottles fitted with GPS devices amid the legitimate supplies on their shelves. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly outlined the plan Tuesday at a La Quinta, Calif., conference on…
More details emerge on DoDDS-EU breach
A previously reported breach that affected students at the Ramstein Intermediate School also affected students and sponsors at three other schools under the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity– Europe (DoDDS-Europe). Until now, I didn’t know which other schools were involved, until a small item on Military.com provided their names. On January 7, DoDDS-Europe issued the…
HK: School websites compromised data privacy
Here’s something you likely won’t see here in the U.S. – partly because we don’t have a Privacy Commissioner and partly because the U.S. Department of Education remains disturbingly placid about all the breaches in the education sector – the government of Hong Kong issued the following statement: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for…
B.C. ministry says millions affected by health-data breach
The issue of privacy breaches involving improper sharing of PHI with researchers has mushroomed for the B.C. Health Ministry: The personal-health data of more than five million British Columbians has been accessed without proper authorization, and in the most serious cases, the provincial government says it will notify more than 38,000 individuals of the breaches…
Washington University School of Medicine notifies surgery patients of breach
Washington University School of Medicine is notifying surgery patients of a breach: Washington University takes seriously the protection of our patients’ health information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding a recent incident involving some of that information. On November 29, 2012, Washington University learned that a physician’s laptop computer was stolen on November 28, 2012 from…