From LoHud.com, a report involving the city of Rye, New York: City officials are notifying employees that some workers’ Social Security numbers were mistakenly disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information Law request and that the city was seeking legal assurance that the information would not be passed on. City Manager Scott Pickup did…
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Ca: Statement on privacy breach at Capital Health
Statement from Capital Health: This week Capital Health is contacting 105 people whose personal health information was inappropriately accessed by a former employee. Everyone who is affected will hear directly from Capital Health and we will be available to discuss the details of these breaches of confidentiality with them. Capital Health identified these breaches during…
UT: Credit card information hacked at Solitude
Meredith Forrest Kulwicki reports: Someone hacked into the credit card system at Solitude Mountain Resort last week, the resort confirmed. The hackers did steal credit card information from some customers, but the resort says the breach was short-lived and only affected a few people. Read more on Fox13
De: Drug data firm 'sold raw info' to big pharma
A German company which studies drug prescription habits for the pharma industry is accused of selling raw data to drug companies, in what magazine Der Spiegel said on Monday could be a huge data protection scandal. A former member of staff at the data processing firm Pharmafakt GFD told the magazine under oath that data…
Firms prosecuted over welfare data
Elaine Edwards reports: Three large insurance companies have pleaded guilty to illegally using social welfare information on individuals which they obtained through a private investigator. FBD, Zurich and Travelers Insurance all pleaded guilty to 10 sample charges each after they were prosecuted for breaches of the Data Protection Act. The prosecutions followed a complaint from…
Why Data Security Regulation is Bad
Danny Lieberman comments: The first government knee-jerk reaction in the face of a data breach is to create more government privacy compliance regulation. This is analogous to shooting yourself in the foot while you hold the loaded weapon in one hand and apply band-aids with the other. Democracies like Israel, the US and the UK…