Monica Rodriguez reports: POMONA – Cal Poly Pomona has mailed letters to 38 past and present faculty members notifying them that their personal data was accessible by people within the College of Business Administration.The letters were mailed Monday, university spokesman Tim Lynch said. Instruction and Information Technology personnel have determined the data – names and…
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UK: MP and councillor hit out at owners of The Knoll
Kathie Griffiths reports: A probe was under way last night after highly-confidential medical files and records were found dumped in the grounds of an abandoned nursing home in Bradford. Among the personal information scattered in piles of rubbish at The Knoll at Thackley were care plans, detailed health assessments and poignant photos of residents who…
(update) Texan gets 4 years for restaurant-related fraud
This is a follow-up to a breach previously covered on this blog in December 2010. Associated Press reports: An East Texas man has been sentenced to four years in prison over credit card numbers scammed from a restaurant and the Internet. The U.S. attorney’s office says 26-year-old Christopher Michael of Malakoff pleaded guilty in May…
WA: Information breach discovered in 4,000 child-support cases
Vanessa Ho reports: The state Department of Social and Health Services said Tuesday it had wrongly disclosed addresses in nearly 4,000 child-support cases. The department said a coding error had caused the mistake, in which medical enrollment forms with the addresses of custodial parents were sent to non-custodial parents. The state considers such information confidential….
UK: Hack of Lush Cosmetics results in undertaking
Back in January, I noted that Lush Cosmetics had been hacked and customer data acquired and misused. The company reportedly only became aware of the breach after receiving reports from almost 100 customers who had become victims of card fraud. Today, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office revealed that Lush was required to sign an undertaking…
UK: Unencrypted laptops with patient data stolen from Harley Street Clinic results in undertaking
There was no press release on this one, but the UK’s ICO had HCA International Limited sign an undertaking following the theft of two unencrypted laptops from a hospital in March. According to the statement: The Information Commissioner (the ‘Commissioner’) was provided with a report of the theft, in March 2011, of two unencrypted laptops containing…