The Department of Veterans Affairs October report to Congress on data incidents is available online. Here are some breaches of note contained in the report: A Regional Office (RO) guard at the Veterans Benefits Administration in Tennessee found an unencrypted thumb drive inside the facility doors on October 8. The guard took the drive home…
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ND: East Grand Forks man to plead guilty in ID-theft case
Archie Ingersoll reports: An East Grand Forks man charged in an identity-theft case that involved dozens of local victims is expected to plead guilty at a Dec. 7 hearing. […] Lafferty, 28, faces 20 felony counts of identity theft as well as a felony theft charge. Criminal complaints accuse him of using the names and…
AvMed sued over loss of computers holding personal info
Anthony Clark reports: Five AvMed Health Plans customers filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday against the health insurer on behalf of 1.2 million people whose personal information was on two laptops that went missing from the company’s Gainesville office. AvMed officials said there are no known cases of identity theft connected to the incident. One of…
VA report to Congress on data incidents in October
The Department of Veterans Affairs October report to Congress on data incidents is available online. Here are some breaches of note contained in the report: A Regional Office (RO) guard at the Veterans Benefits Administration in Tennessee found an unencrypted thumb drive inside the facility doors on October 8. The guard took the drive home…
Dutch Bill Proposes Data Breach Notification Requirements and Revised Cookie Regime
In a move toward implementation of the EU e-Privacy Directive, on November 3, 2010, the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs submitted a bill to the Dutch Parliament that would amend the Dutch Telecommunications Act to obligate telecom and internet service providers to provide notification of data security breaches, and require consent for the use of cookies (the…
US data laws spur encryption take-up
John E Dunn reports: Data security laws are now the main reason US companies take up encryption, for the first time surpassing even anxiety over data breaches, a new report by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Symantec has found. Reporting for its fourth year in 2010, US Enterprise Encryption Trends found that regulations were…