The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has imposed fines of $450,000 against Lincoln Financial Securities, Inc. (LFS) and $150,000 against an affiliated firm, Lincoln Financial Advisors Corporation (LFA), for failure to adequately protect non-public customer information. In addition, LFS failed to require brokers working remotely to install security application software on…
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(follow-up) FL: 5th suspect held in ID-theft ring targeting Holy Cross patients
Juan Ortega reports: Federal authorities have arrested the last of five suspects in an identity-theft ring that targeted patients at Holy Cross Hospital. Jimmy Lee Theodore, 27, of Pembroke Pines, was taken into custody Tuesday, charged with using patients’ stolen identities to obtain debit cards, authorities said. […] As a precaution, Holy Cross sent letters to…
The Personally Controlled eHealth Record (PCEHR) Checklist of Privacy Concerns
Draft paper by the Australian Privacy Foundation can be found on their site. Many of the concerns they raise are the same ones we’ve seen here and elsewhere, and need to be addressed.
Winamp forums attacked, accounts and email addresses exposed
Samuel Gibbs reports: Hackers have broken through security protecting the Winamp forum database, compromising the user forums, exposing accounts and email addresses in the process. In a post on the company’s forum, Winamp’s General Manager, Geno Yoham, explained that an attack was quickly detected and isolated to the Winamp forum database, protecting the rest of…
AA employee accused of stealing credit card numbers
A former American Airlines employee at Mineta San Jose International Airport is facing 66 felony charges for allegedly stealing and using customer credit card numbers. Prosecutors claim Micheline Johnson, 49, of Concord, skimmed customers’ credit card numbers for several years while she worked as a customer service agent. They say she used those numbers on…
(follow-up) ME: Little found by police on June data breach
Jamison Cocklin reports: For now, it seems the data breach that occurred last spring when two of the University of Maine’s computer servers were infiltrated by hackers will have few repercussions on the more than 4,000 students affected. Officer Bill Mitchell, a computer forensics specialist who is leading the investigation for the University of Maine…