From the oh-FFS-dept.: AP reports: The identity information of 14,000 past and present Midland Independent School District students has been compromised by a computer theft. Midland school Superintendent Ryder Warren says a laptop computer and external hard drive containing the information was stolen from the back of a district administrator’s car on Jan. 23. He…
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Target faces second credit union class action lawsuit
David Morrison reports: A second credit union has filed a legal complaint against Target over losses it said it sustained as a result of the firm’s card data breach late last year. The $38 million First Choice Federal Credit Union, headquartered in New Castle, Pa., filed its complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District…
Data for 685 Fairfax students mistakenly posted online
T. Rees Shapiro reports that Fairfax County School District has had yet another breach involving student data: Personal information for hundreds of Fairfax County public school students was mistakenly posted on the school system’s Web site, exposing their school identification numbers, birth dates, home addresses and phone numbers in what parents described as a breach…
Provider of Medical Transcript Services Settles FTC Charges That It Failed to Adequately Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
Press release from the FTC, followed by my comments: A company that provides medical transcription services has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its inadequate data security measures unfairly exposed the personal information of thousands of consumers on the open Internet, in some instances including consumers’ medical histories and examination notes. In its complaint…
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Campers’ information stolen by camp employee
Nathan Brown reports that a Town of Rosendale man (in upstate New York) has been charged with selling the personal information of campers and their parents at Camp Rov Tov, Rov Tov is a boys’ camp affiliated with a Satmar Jewish school in Brooklyn; they have camps in Dairyland, Kerhonkson, Napanoch and Ellenville in Ulster…
TD Bank reports another insider breach
TD Bank has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of an insider breach that does not appear to be the insider breach that made the media last month. According to the bank’s January 24 notification, between July and November of 2013, an employee may have passed along some customers’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers,…