Lockheed Martin recently notified some former or current employees that a hard drive that formerly belonged to them had been found for sale on eBay by academic researchers participating in a global research project. The researchers turned the drive over to the FBI when they found some employee data still readable on the drive. According…
Author: Dissent
Stolen NY Life Insurance laptop had customer info
For the second time in as many months, New York Life Insurance is notifying customers of a data breach. In the newest incident, a laptop containing unencrypted customer information was stolen from an employee’s vehicle in a “smash and grab.” In a somewhat unusual notification [pdf] to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, NY Life…
Wells Fargo employee accused of accessing customers’ accounts
A Wells Fargo Bank employee working inside a bank call center was arrested Friday for accessing customer accounts and taking money out, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. Ronita Prasad, 28, of Antelope gained access to customer accounts through a protected system without authorization. She used customer account access to pay her own debts, open…
Texas AG announces settlement with Cornerstone Fitness
As a follow-up on a breach previously reported here, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced that the state has reached an agreement with Cornerstone Fitness, L.L.C. that requires the fitness center to better protect its customers’ personal information. In February, the Attorney General charged Cornerstone with violating a Texas law that governs the disposal of…
Bits ‘n Pieces
Alpha Daye Bah was arrested last week on charges that he stole at least 20 customers’ data from an unnamed restaurant and passed it to co-conspirators. More. Jason Reed and Derek Edwards were arrested for conspiracy to commit identity theft. Following a — wait for it — traffic stop, the officers found stolen credit cards…
Child DNA donors should have their say
Biobanks should revamp how they handle DNA from healthy children, says an international team of bioethics experts. Children whose parents have signed them up for long-term studies should not have their genetic data distributed or made public until the donors consent at an older age, says the team, which publishes its recommendations today in Science….