When I saw a press release yesterday from The Children’s Place indicating that their unnamed email service provider had been hacked, I thought it was a reference to the Epsilon breach. It wasn’t. The Children’s Place is a customer of Experian’s Cheetahmail service. A notice from The Children’s Place on ebm.cheetahmail.com says: Dear Customer, Yesterday…
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CA: “Embarrassing” Files Found Outside Blockbuster
Bob Hansen reports: The Blockbuster store in Mission Valley was being cleaned out for the last time. The video store chain is in bankruptcy and one worker was finishing up at the store. That’s when privacy rights expert Beth Givens happened to walk by and she was shocked by what she found. “A box called…
ICO slammed for data protection enforcement failures
As regular readers of this blog already know, the ICO has issued fines over data protection breaches precisely four times since he acquired the authority to do so, despite public clamor for him to really get tough. Now Caroline Donnelly reports: … In total, information concerning 2,565 potential data breaches was passed on to the…
Too-expansive access control lands NHS Birmingham East and North in breach of the Data Protection Act
NHS Birmingham East and North (BEN) breached the Data Protection Act by failing to restrict access to files on their IT network, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced today. The breach, which was discovered by BEN on September 8, led to some NHS staff at their own Trust and two other NHS Trusts nearby potentially…
Hackers may have accessed more than 25,000 South Carolina students’ personal info
The identity of thousands of students and teachers has potentially been compromised after officials with the Lancaster County School District say a hacker was able to access their system. According to school officials, the hackers were able to hack into the district’s system by monitoring district computers and capturing keystrokes to get passwords. Those passwords…
Ca: Fact Sheet #17 – Applying PHIPA and FIPPA/MFIPPA to Personal Health Information
The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has issued a Fact Sheet to provide organizations that are defined as both health information custodians under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) and institutions under public sector privacy and access to information legislation, namely the provincial Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) or its municipal…