After gene testing businesses were criticized by state regulators last year for marketing to California residents without a license to perform clinical laboratory tests, the industry decided it was time for new regulations — which it decided to write. A bill drafted by 23andMe and introduced by state Sen. Alex Padilla (D-San Fernando Valley) would…
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Francis Howell SD laptop stolen
The Francis Howell School District [in Missouri] is warning employees that a laptop computer theft could have compromised personal information. District spokeswoman Jennifer Gasper said the computer could have contained names and Social Security numbers for 1,700 noncertified employees. Anyone who worked for the district from 2005 through 2008 could be affected, she said. Read…
Four million British IDs up for sale on the internet
The identities of more than four million Britons are being offered for sale on the internet, The Times has learnt. Highly sensitive financial information, including credit card details, bank account numbers, telephone numbers and even PINs are available to the highest bidder. […] The information being traded on the web has been intercepted by a…
Personal info found outside DPS building
Hundreds of documents containing names, birth dates, driver’s license numbers and some Social Security numbers were found Wednesday littering the driveway of Galveston’s vacant Department of Public Safety office. Until contacted by The Daily News, the state agency was unaware of the office cleaning mishap, which occurred sometime after Hurricane Ike’s Sept. 13 landfall flooded…
Hotline for UCSD patients swamped
The hotline established by UCSD’s Moores Cancer Center after a hacker breached the center’s computers and gained access to patients’personal information has been swamped with hundreds of calls from worried patients. Their primary concern has been whether their Social Security numbers were among the information stolen by whomever obtained the electronic files of 30,000 patients,…
ID theft at Kaweah Manor Convalescent Hospital
At least eight seniors at the Kaweah Manor Convalescent Hospital have had their identity stolen by a former intern, the Visalia Police said. Ratoni Brown, 28, of Visalia was a nursing student intern through Sacramento Junior College when she was placed at Kaweah Manor through a private firm. She and Paul Lopez, 48, of Visalia…