Chris Williams reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been investigating the theft and sale of T-Mobile customers’ personal data for almost a year, it has emerged. News of the security breach, which saw rogue staff at the mobile operator divulge contract details to cold-calling marketeers, was only released to customers last month. According to…
Category: Business Sector
Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Palm Pre/Pixi Users Suffered from Data Loss
A Bay Area man filed a class action lawsuit against Palm and Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) for losing most all the contacts, appointments and other data stored by many of the hundreds of thousands of Sprint users of the popular Palm webOS line of mobile phones, including the Palm Pre and Pixi. The data loss is…
CA man pleads guilty to Medicare scam, aggravated ID theft
The owner of Beltline Medical Supplies, Inc., formerly in Dallas, Texas, pleaded guilty last week to charges of aggravated identity theft. According to plea documents filed in the case, Rafayel Movsesyan, 38, a resident of Los Angeles, California, opened Beltline Medical Supplies, Inc. in Dallas in 2007 and submitted more than $1,028,000 in false claims…
Was Lockheed Martin breach notification intentionally vague?
If Steve Regan of The Tech Herald thought Alpha Software’s breach notification was bland, I wonder what he thinks of Lockheed Martin’s recent breach notification. On November 6, Lockheed Martin sent out a breach notification that began: Dear As part of Lockheed Martin’s continued vigilance of personal information privacy matters, I am writing to inform…
Update: Court to decide what time, trouble are worth in Hannaford breach
Judy Harrison reports: Whether Hannaford Bros. customers may recover damages for the time and trouble it took them to straighten out their bank or credit card accounts after the Scarborough-based firm’s computer system was breached in late 2007 and early 2008 now is up to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The justices have never considered…
A rather bland breach notification sparks questions
Steve Ragan reports: Alpha Software Inc., a business that focuses on development tools for businesses wishing to create AJAX-based platforms, recently announced a data breach in a manner so casual, some actually questioned if it was real. […] Dear Customer, We have been informed that there has been a security breach at the Internet Service…