The Associated Press is reporting that CVS Caremark reported in its quarterly filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that the the Federal Trade Commission is investigating some of the company’s business practices. In that filing, CVS reported: In August 2009, the Company was notified by the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) that it is…
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NARA admits violating internal policy on personal info
Ben Bain reports: The National Archives and Records Administration violated its information security policies by returning failed hard drives from systems containing personally identifiable information of current government employees and military veterans back to vendors. By agency policy, NARA is supposed to destroy the hard drives rather than return them, according to a top NARA…
AZ: Man stole from Banner Health patients to buy movie tickets?
Chris Kline reports: A Banner Health employee has been arrested for stealing credit card information from patients and apparently using that information to buy movie tickets. According to a Scottsdale Police report, an investigation started last month after Harkins Theatres reported to police they had processed three online ticket purchases using different stolen credit cards….
Vann sentenced in ID scheme that used mortgage and credit files
A Thousand Oaks man was sentenced yesterday to 95 months in federal prison for orchestrating an identity theft scheme in which he used personal identifying information taken from dozens of mortgage and credit files to fraudulently obtain credit cards that were used to purchase more than $1 million in goods and services. Visanio Eugene Vann,…
Government accused of ‘cover up’ over lost farmer tapes
The Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been accused of a “cover up” after two back-up tapes went missing containing the banking details of around 100,000 farmers. The tapes are said to have gone missing this spring, with Defra officials having been informed in July. The tapes were lost by contractor IBM,…
NHS trust bans unencrypted flash drives
As a follow-up to a breach reported here last month, the BBC reports that Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust in Surrey has apologized and banned the use of unencrypted memory sticks after 76 patients’ personal details were lost. Now if we could just get all health care facilities in the U.S. to flat…