From Silicon Republic: A technical glitch that allowed at least one Vodafone customer to view the private Hotmail account details of another user has been fixed following global downtime for the mobile webmail service. A spokesperson for Vodafone Ireland said the issue was brought to light after a customer contacted the company who subsequently removed…
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Maine Requires Breach Notice within Seven Days of Go-Ahead from Law Enforcement
From the Privacy & Information Security Law Blog: On May 19, Maine Governor John Baldacci signed legislation limiting the time that breach notification may be delayed following a determination by law enforcement that providing notice will not compromise a criminal investigation. The provision, which will take effect 90 days after the close of the Legislature’s…
Another processor breached!? (nope – see update 1)
WBZ is reporting that hundreds of bank customers are starting their holiday weekend off without their debit cards after a breach at the bank’s card processor, Metavante, forced the Winthrop Federal Credit Union to deactivate some customers’ MasterCards. At least one case of fraud has already been tentatively linked to the breach. No one was…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Four San Fernando Valley men were charged with ID theft and other charges in an alleged electronic crime scheme in which more than two dozen victims — including two banks — lost more than $400,000 via phony ATM withdrawals. More. As a follow-up to a breach reported in November, Luis Corona…
Indiana agency sent 4,500 social security numbers to wrong companies
Eric Bradner of the Evansville & Courier Press reports that Indiana’s unemployment agency, the Department of Workforce Development, accidentally sent the social security numbers of 4,500 out-of-work Hoosiers to the wrong companies due to a printing error by Pitney Bowes Management Services. It was less than one week ago that the New Jersey Department of…
No charges in document dump outside Boulder Kia dealership
Vanessa Miller of Colorado Daily updates us on the Boulder Anderson Kia dumping report: Police don’t expect to charge anyone for leaving 10 recycling bins full of customers’ personal information outside of the now-defunct Anderson Kia dealership in Boulder. Since the discovery of the documents Friday, investigators found that an operations director for Iron Mountain…