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American Bankers Association notifies 6,400 to reset passwords after hack and data dump

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Dissent

So it seems that the American Bankers Association had a breach, although I didn’t see it any mainstream media reports.  Marc Hochstein noted the breach in a column he wrote today: American Bankers Association separately said that email addresses and passwords used to make purchases or register for events through its online shopping cart had…

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The complaint to FTC about Experian that accomplished… what?

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Dissent

Today, Experian disclosed another data breach. This one affected 15 million customers of T-Mobile USA, for whom Experian hosts consumer data used for credit checks for new accounts. In tweeting my frustration about this latest incident, @emptywheel suggested I post the complaint I filed with the FTC about Experian in 2012. After some thought, I’ve decided…

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Experian’s servers hacked; 15 million T-Mobile USA customers affected (UPDATED)

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Dissent

There’s been another data breach involving Experian, it seems, although this one didn’t involve their credit reporting database. Instead, it involved data Experian houses for T-Mobile USA. In a letter to affected T-Mobile USA customers, Experian CEO Craig Boundy writes: I am writing to let you know of an incident that occurred involving T‐Mobile USA data housed…

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Reports slam OCR’s poor oversight of HIPAA covered entities, breach followup efforts

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Dissent

If you follow HHS’s public breach tool and investigations closely, two reports from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) finding lax oversight and insufficient follow-up will come as no surprise. Susan Hall of FierceHealthIT has a good recap: The former report was based on reviews of a statistical sample of privacy cases investigated by OCR between September…

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Watchdog: Top Secret Service official wanted information about Chaffetz made public

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Dissent

Shades of J. Edgar and dirty politics! I’m classifying this as a privacy breach and also an infosec breach as these data were supposed to be protected.  Carol D. Leonnig and Jerry Markon report:  The Secret Service’s assistant director urged that unflattering information the agency had in its files about a congressman critical of the service should be made public,…

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Chase Can’t Dodge $10M Identity Theft Suit

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Dissent

Rose Bouboushian reports: Chase Bank must face identity theft claims for employees who let money launderers use a customer’s dormant accounts in a Medicare fraud scheme, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday. Yelena Galper sued JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A. in New York state court in May 2013, claiming several of its employees accepted bribes to…

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