Textron Financial has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that an external hard drive lost in mid-October contained personal information on 54 former and current employees as well as customers. According to a letter sent to affected clients this week, names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and account numbers relating to the purchase of time-share…
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Ca: MP leaves couple in dark on ID theft
Canadian press are all over the delays in notifying people about recent breaches. Here’s a story indicating that those whose passports were stolen weren’t notified promptly and only found out if they inquired: Richard J. Brennan reports: […] About 75 passports applications were found in a Canada Post bag along with 85 credit cards and…
NH: AG reviewing WDH patient records breach
As a follow-up to the coverage of a patient privacy breach involving Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (WDH), Adam D. Krauss of Foster’s Daily Democrat reports that a number of agencies are now piling on. Concern over Wentworth-Douglass Hospital’s handling of a broad privacy breach into patients’ records has widened with the Attorney General’s Office confirming it is…
Update: AG reviewing WDH patient records breach
Adam D. Krauss reports: Concern over Wentworth-Douglass Hospital’s handling of a broad privacy breach into patients’ records has widened with the Attorney General’s Office confirming it is reviewing what happened. “It is something we’re looking into,” said James Boffetti, who leads the AG’s Consumer Protection & Antitrust Bureau. Boffetti said he could not divulge specifics,…
Mental Health Social Network Launched
Mitch Wagner of InformationWeek reports on a new social networking site: Mental Health Social launched a new social network designed to let people with mental health conditions or those interested in those conditions to connect in a comfortable online environment. MentalHealthSocial.com is designed to allow people to share experiences anonymously, reach out to others with…
Malware rebounds as cause of data loss
The 2009 CSI Computer Crime and Security survey identified a number of shifts in significant cybersecurity threats this year. Malware infections jumped to 64% from 50%, reversing a dip in the number of companies experiencing malware infections that started in 2005. That year, the figure was 74%. Other significant changes were an almost doubling in…