Insurance firm Alico Japan said Monday the suspected leakage of its customers’ credit card information may have led to about 2,200 cases of credit card fraud, more than twice as many as in its previous announcement. Kazuyuki Takahashi, representative of the Japanese insurer affiliated with American International Group Inc, told a press conference that credit…
Author: Dissent
Files vanished, young Chinese lose the future
There is a bizarre story out of China were dozens of Chinese students have seen their future wiped out by the disappearance of their manila folders containing their records. In China, these paper folders follow a student throughout his or her career with every achievement, score, and prospect for a college education. While Chinese officials…
Network Solutions suffers crippling data breach
More on the massive data breach first reported last week: Over half a million credit card holders may have had their account details captured by hackers, after web hosting firm Network Solutions revealed that more than 4,000 of the e-commerce sites it hosts could have been breached. […] Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley said…
Thomas Cook info blowing in the wind
Staff at a Dundee travel agent have been told to tighten up their procedures for handling confidential documents after a sheet of paper containing sensitive information was found in a city centre street (writes Maura Bowman). A concerned passer-by handed the document in to the Evening Telegraph as he feared it could fall into the…
ID theft bill proposed in Michigan
Identity theft victims will be able to seek compensation for the time and effort it takes to clean up their damaged credit history if legislation proposed by a S.W. Michigan lawmaker becomes law. Representative Matt Lori (R-Constantine) says that the bill updates Michigan law by better defining what constitutes identity theft, and increasing the penalties….
Cardiff Council’s laptop thefts revealed
A councillor has criticised Cardiff council after discovering 22 laptops and seven computers have been stolen from civic offices in the last four years. Ramesh Patel said the revelation raised fears about the security of data held on computers in council buildings and the care that was taken with taxpayers’ cash. Read more in Wales…