Earlier this week, Senator Feinstein grabbed the privacy headlines when she reintroduced the same breach notification bill that she has introduced in every session of Congress for the past few years. Like me, the bill has not improved with age. S.139 is intended to provide a national “floor” on data breach notifications for breaches involving…
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Mysterious credit card charge may have hit millions of users
Mitch Lipka reports: Several Internet complaint boards are filled with comments from credit card customers from coast to coast who have noticed a mysterious charge for about 25 cents on their statements. The charge shows up on statements as coming from “Adele Services” in Melville, N.Y. There is no business by that name listed in…
GA: Personal Documents Found Stashed Behind Coweta Co. Store
More than a week after a Circuit City store closed its doors, employees found personal documents stashed behind the building. Investigators were trying to determine if anyone else saw the customers’ information. The accompanying video indicates that there were “boxes and boxes” of service contract papers that contained customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, type of…
TX: Forest Hill council member victim of identity theft
Andrew Chavez reports: Police want to know how a Forest Hill city council member’s identity was stolen and used to cash fake traveler’s checks in Ohio several times over the past year. Ohio investigators say the man pulled the scam at least four times in the past year, netting about $600, said Capt. Gary Turner,…
JP: Info on 110,000 students leaked
Personal information containing names, addresses, telephone numbers and bank account numbers used for paying tuition on all 110,000 students enrolled in Kanagawa prefectural senior high schools in fiscal 2006 was leaked–and remains–on the Internet because the involved parties have been unable to get it removed. Last September, the board of education received a fax from…
IE: Red faces as health records dumped in North
Ciaran Byrne reports: The Data Protection Commissioner confirmed last night that medical notes found dumped in the North clearly identify 16 Irish hospital patients. An investigation has been launched into how the sensitive notes came to be dumped in a laneway in Co Derry. The Data Protection Commissioner said the notes identify the people involved…