Customers of Play.com have contacted the BBC to report problems with the online retailer’s ordering system. Many customers have received e-mails from Play.com reporting the despatch of an order they did not place. Those opening the orders found contact details, including names and addresses, for other Play.com customers. […] On some forums customers said they…
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Too diligent? Royal Mail worker ‘demands baby’s signature’
Richard Savill reports: John Berry, 70, said he was startled when he was told by the worker at a sorting office that he could not pick up the package on behalf of his new-born granddaughter, Amber. The retired aerospace engineer cycled to the depot in Cheltenham, Glos, after a postman dropped a card through his…
CVS under investigation by FTC again
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…
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,…