As Robert McMillan of IDG News Service kindly pointed out, this site initially reported the lawsuit against Radiant Systems and its distributor, Computer World Inc., over a week ago. If you’re new to this site, you can find that story here. In a subsequent post, I mentioned some other restaurants that had been hacked while…
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KS: Wichita Student Private Information Online
Deb Farris reports: Many Wichita parents are angry after learning their children’s names, ages, addresses and phone numbers are listed on an internet web site. […] We tracked it down to the Wichita school district. The website is used to make maps and give directions. A spokesperson for the district says in the fall the…
NZ: Civil service warned: do more to protect privacy
Kara Segedin reports: Privacy commissioner Marie Shroff released her report for the year ending June 30, 2009 showing critical failings in government departments’ handling of information. […] There were 806 privacy complaints this year, up 22 per cent from last year. “I have given the public sector a wake-up call to better protect privacy, in…
Update: Court to decide what time, trouble are worth in Hannaford breach
Judy Harrison reports: Whether Hannaford Bros. customers may recover damages for the time and trouble it took them to straighten out their bank or credit card accounts after the Scarborough-based firm’s computer system was breached in late 2007 and early 2008 now is up to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The justices have never considered…
UK: Laptop Theft Debated by Councillors
A four-day lapse between council staff realising a laptop containing nearly 15,000 postal voter details was missing and reporting it to police was called into question last week. A preliminary report containing the chronology of events surrounding the theft of the laptop – which contained names, addresses, dates of birth and signatures – was put…
PA: Hospital laptop stolen, data may be breached
Josh Goldstein reports: A Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia laptop computer containing Social Security numbers and other personal information for 943 people was stolen from a car outside an employee’s home on Oct. 20. The billing information on the computer was password-protected, but an analysis found it was “possible to decode the security controls on the…