Trent Faris reports on a couple who may have misused over 100 victims’ personal information: Hall worked for a company called IQOR in Charlotte that handles record keeping for a gas company in Chicago. Police say Hall would write down people’s names date of birth and Social Security numbers on scraps of paper and take…
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Credit agencies sell personal info
Shannon Ross reports: You probably know that credit reporting companies collect personal information, like if you pay your bills on time. But, did you also know that they also keep track of the medications you take and assign it a score? Senator Chuck Schumer says they take that score and sell it to other companies,…
Coming up in Congress this Wednesday
The Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law will be holding a hearing: “Your Health and Your Privacy: Protecting Health Information in a Digital World” DATE: November 9, 2011 TIME: 02:30 PM ROOM: Dirksen 226 OFFICIAL HEARING NOTICE / WITNESS LIST: November 2, 2011 NOTICE OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING The Senate Committee on the…
AU: Computershare ‘breach’ a lesson in information larceny (UPDATED)
Leonie Woods reports: The privacy and financial records of millions of shareholders who use Computershare’s global share registry system were placed at risk this year when a Boston employee quit the company, allegedly taking with her thousands of pages of highly sensitive and confidential documents. [See UPDATE below]. The employee resigned in September last year…
AU: Bad Taste: News Ltd suffers another online breach
Ben Grubb reports: News Limited has suffered another security breach which has resulted in members receiving spam emails and potentially having their passwords exposed. Taste.com.au, a product of News Limited’s News Magazines, last Friday emailed members to inform them of the breach which “potentially exposed” information about its members via “illegal and unauthorised access to…
500,000 e-mail addresses and passwords acquired: Adidas websites go offline after security breach (UPDATED)
Last night, a regular reader of this blog contacted me about the Adidas breach. I told him, and repeat now, that it’s not clear whether any personal information was involved, which is why I held off on posting anything about. As of this morning, the company doesn’t think personal data has been accessed or acquired,…