Nick Bilton reports: Sony has declined to testify at a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, “The Threat of Data Theft to American Consumers,” that seeks to understand how consumers’ private data is protected by corporations. […] The subcommittee sent a letter to Sony on Friday asking the company to answer a number of questions related to the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Best Buy Customers Beware: Another Email Security Breach
MB Quirk of The Consumerist cites an email from Best Buy to its customers – and no, this is apparently not the Epsilon breach, but yet another breach involving Best Buy customers: Dear Valued Best Buy Customer, We have discovered that a former business partner’s files containing the email addresses of some Best Buy customers…
Hackers acquire X Factor applicants’ details
Katie Begley reports: Simon Cowell has called in the FBI after hackers broke into his top-secret computer network. Closely guarded secrets about media mogul Simon Cowell and his new US X Factor show have been “stolen” by sneaky cyber crooks. The personal information and act details of more than 250,000 wannabes have also been…
Texas state employees sue Comptroller over recent security breach
Terry Baynes reports: A public school teacher sued the Texas Comptroller’s Office on behalf of 3.5 million current and former state employees after the comptroller posted the employees’ private information on its public website. The class-action lawsuit was filed in Houston federal court on Friday. It accuses the state agency of inflicting financial and emotional…
Taipei demands answers from Sony, threatens fines
Ralph Jennings reports: The city of Taipei is demanding that Sony provide details about any leak of PlayStation Network user data following an intrusion last week or face fines. As pressure mounts internationally against Sony over the failure of its PlayStation Network online gaming service, the Taiwan capital’s Law and Regulation Commission said late on…
Omnicare notifies almost 9,000 that their Social Security numbers and protected health information were on a stolen laptop
Omnicare Inc. of Kentucky recently notified 8,845 patients who had protected health information on a laptop that was stolen on January 19. The firm, which provides pharmaceutical care for seniors, posted a statement on their web site for those using pharmacies in North Carolina: On January 19, 2011, a laptop computer was stolen that contained…