The Last.fm music site and the eHarmony dating service said some user passwords were stolen, a day after another online company, LinkedIn, confirmed a security breach. “We are currently investigating the leak of some Last.fm user passwords,” the London-based company, which recommends music to listeners, said today on its website. “As a precautionary measure, we’re…
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City laptop with residents’ data stolen from library
The New Haven Register reports on a laptop theft that occurred on May 23: A laptop used by an Elderly Services Specialist to input data for the Rent Rebate program was stolen recently from the Mitchell Branch Library, but there is no reason to believe anyone has accessed the data stored on the laptop, city…
Does a Data Breach in the U.S. Require Notification in Europe?
Paul Van den Buick writes: The European legal framework on the protection of personal data (Directive 95/46/Ec) is acknowledged as one of the strictest in the world. This tendency seems to be confirmed by the new draft regulation on the protection of personal data revealed by the European Commission in January 2012, which, once adopted,…
No evidence that Pharmacist.com hack involved patient records (updated)
As I had suggested previously in several tweets, those involved in the hack of Pharmacist.com may not have understood some of the data were that they acquired in the hack. They certainly didn’t understand the nature of their target. In a statement disclosing the hack, reproduced on CyberWarNews.info, the hackers had written: In an effort…
AU: Privacy Commissioner finds Act breached by super fund
ABC (AU) reports an update on a situation previously mentioned on this blog where simple url manipulation exposed information: A superannuation company that allowed the private details of its customers to be leaked online has been found to have breached the Privacy Act. In September last year, a flaw was discovered in First State Super’s computer systems,…
TN: Personal Records Found in Dumpster
Some breaches make me want to curse. This news report out of Sevierville, Sevier County in Tennessee makes me want to yell, “When the hell are businesses going to start getting fined for just dumping unshredded files with PII?” … Kim Pierce runs a video store in Sevierville and was shocked at what she found…