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Ca: Federal online glitch leaked private info

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Dissent

A major Canadian government website malfunctioned and publicly displayed the personal information of about 75 people, CBC News has learned. A glitch in the Service Canada “Access Key” site, a new website launched by the government on Sept. 26 that aims to be a “one-stop shop” for Canadians to manage benefits such as employment insurance…

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KY: Area bank warns of security breach

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Dissent

Michael Vick reports on news from Paducah: An area bank issued an important warning to take a closer look at your bank accounts, informing customers of a security breach. Community Financial Services Bank recently sent out a letter saying Visa contacted them because a hacker in Miami accessed some unauthorized customer information. Read more on…

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Ca: Goodfellow student information stolen from vehicle

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Dissent

Chris Simon reports: A binder containing personal information on 93 Goodfellow Public School students was stolen from a teacher’s car in Springwater Township sometime overnight between Nov. 5 and 6. The binder, which had been placed inside a briefcase that looked similar to a computer case, was among several items stolen during the break-in, which…

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Jury Awards Woman $100K Over Before-and-After Cosmetic Surgery Photos

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Dissent

Dan O’Connor reports: Before-and-after neck-to-knees photos of a 64-year-old cosmetic surgery patient that somehow appeared in a newspaper article about her surgeon without her permission are at the center of a federal lawsuit in St. Louis. Last November, a jury awarded $100,000 to the plaintiff, identified in court records only as Jane Doe from Bartow,…

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Smaller companies challenged to comply with Massachusetts’ data privacy rules

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Dissent

Jill Gambon reports: Eight months after the state’s tough, new data privacy regulations went into effect, many businesses are still sorting through the rules and working to bring their firms into compliance. The regulations, which went into force in March, are intended to protect a consumer’s personal information from identity theft and other privacy breaches…

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While everyone's discussing the cost of breaches to hospitals…

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Dissent

Not surprisingly, a lot of the headlines  from the Ponemon study are that American hospitals spend about $6 billion/year due to data breaches, or around $1 million+ per hospital/per year. But the costs of a data breach that result in a lawsuit are considerably higher. In talking with Rick Kam, the President of ID Experts,…

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