The other day I linked to reports indicating that card fraud was down 56% in Cape Town and 20% in the U.K. this year. Now an article I saw this week on Inside Retailing cites Visa reports that counterfeit credit card fraud is down 45% in Australia this year. Another article, this one on International…
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PA: Physicians group wants to drop federal lawsuit
Tim Darragh reports: A subsidiary of Lehigh Valley Health Network that sued a physician group over an alleged breach of confidential patient information now wants to drop the complaint. Lehigh Valley Physician Group, the subsidiary, Monday filed a brief in federal court in Allentown seeking to drop its complaint against MDVIP Inc. of Boca Raton,…
WikiLeaks Breach Raises Concern About Privacy of Electronic Medical Records
The embarrassing leak of a quarter-million State Department documents by WikiLeaks has recharged the debate over electronic medical records, raising concern that the government may not be capable of safeguarding Americans’ most intimate health care secrets when their records go digital. Doctors and privacy advocates alike are pointing to the havoc wreaked by WikiLeaks founder…
TX: Cyber thieves hit Gregg County for $200K
Glenn Evans reports: An international cyber attack on the Gregg County Tax Assessor has cost at least seven taxing entities a total of about $200,000, officials said Monday. Other Texas counties could also be victims. The cyber theft hijacked local tax payments from a daily electronic transfer, that day totaling $690,000, destined for schools and…
FL: Company Dumps Files, Exposing Personal Information
KMax Systems said a new manager threw out a box of job applications in a Dumpster by mistake. The files contain personal information. A homeless man found the job applications in the trash. […] KMax sells Kirby vacuum cleaners door-to-door. Read more on ClickOrlando.com
AU: Telstra red-faced after email error
Lucy Battersby reports: Telstra has accidentally leaked personal details of 570 customers after an employee sent an email to customers waiting for products rather than the stores delivering the products. An attachment containing customer names, general location and email addresses was sent to store owners asking them to update the order status. However, the Telstra…