Alan Little of BBC News reports: A criminal gang selling UK credit card details stolen from Indian call centres has been exposed by an undercover BBC News investigation. Reporters posing as fraudsters bought UK names, addresses and valid credit card details from a Delhi-based man. The seller denied any wrongdoing and Symantec corporation, from whom…
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Visa Security Summit opens with no sympathy for Heartland
The Visa Security Summit 2009 is going on today. You can watch a live webcast at http://www.visasecuritysummit.com (free registration required). Ellen Richey, Chief Enterprise Risk Officer for Visa, Inc. wasted little time in her opening remarks before getting to the recent Heartland Payment Systems breach and Visa’s confidence in PCI DSS as an important tool…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Diane Michelle Nicholson, a former employee of the Holladay Park Plaza retirement care facility, is accused of stealing credit cards and checks from multiple elderly tenants and patients. Read more. Dr. Lisa Michelle Barden, the physician accused of stealing patients’ identities and faking other doctors’ signatures to obtain thousands of prescription…
Ca: Increased access to medical files a concern for retired nurses
Gary Kean of The Western Star reports: A pair of retired registered nurses from Corner Brook have plenty of questions about the accessibility of medical files under the care of Western Health. Eva Joan Lee spent her career in a community health setting, working with adult patients, while Marjorie Deckert was a nurse in a…
RI: E-mail error by Brown University leads to changes
Joanna Wohlmuth of The Brown Daily Herald reports that Brown’s Office of Financial Aid most likely did not violate federal or state laws when it inadvertently revealed the full names and email addresses of nearly 1,800 students who have initiated an application for University financial assistance in an email reminder to applicants. That sounds about…
Walgreens Health Initiative notifies Kentucky retirees of email transmission error
Stephanie Steitzer reports that names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of roughly 28,000 state retirees were e-mailed without the required encryption to the Kentucky Retirement Systems by Walgreens Health Initiative, its pharmacy benefit provider. Affected retirees were notified by letter from WHI, who informed recipients that the mistake was “solely the responsibility of…