Personal information for thousand of current and former Idaho National Laboratory employees may be at risk. The Department of Energy’s Office of Health, Safety and Security said a computer disk containing information like first and last name, date of birth and social security numbers, was lost during shipment on January 30. […] While in its…
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CA: Lawmaker: Consumers need details in data breach warnings
Elinor Mills of Cnet reports: Six years after California enacted the country’s first data breach notification law, many state residents have received letters warning them that their data was exposed by a breach but usually they don’t know how or how long, experts said at a privacy conference on Friday. That would change with the…
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In the justice system: Three Romanians have been arrested in Malta in connection with police investigations of credit card fraud amounting to thousands of euro. Some 60 credit cards, a false passport, computers and equipment used to produce false credit cards were seized from a house in Msida. More. Four men from Florida were indicted…
CO: Health records blowing in the wind
ABC News in Denver reports that confidential patient records from Agape Healthcare in Greenwood Village were found blowing in people’s yards miles away in Aurora. Some of the records were dated earlier this week. Agape Healthcare provides in-home services to those with six months or less to live.
Another stolen FEMA laptop highlights data protection problems within the agency
Diane Krieger Spivak of the Post-Tribune reports that a laptop containing Social Security numbers and other personal information on approximately 50 victims of the September’s floods was stolen from a housing inspector’s car on November 4. There was no explanation of why a housing inspector was in possession of the laptop. A FEMA spokesperson acknowledged…
Rental Research Services, Inc. settles FTC charges that it sold credit reports to ID thieves
Rental Research Services, Inc. , a consumer reporting agency, and its principal, Lee Mikkelson, settled FTC charges that they failed to properly screen prospective customers and sold at least 318 credit reports to identity thieves. Under the settlement, the company and its principal must ensure that they provide credit reports only to legitimate businesses for…