Richard Berger, a CPA in Oakland, California, has been notifying clients after a burglar snatched three external hard drives with client data from his home: His notification letter, which I’ve seen on both the California and Vermont Attorney General’s web sites, begins: I am very sorry to inform you that three external hard drives were…
Category: Business Sector
NY: Personal documents found in Norwich dumpster
Here we go again. A woman discovers unshredded personal information in a dumpster. David Hermanovitch reports: The information was originally given to Vision Nissan of Webster, NY. The documentation had been placed in the dumpster, not shredded, after the mobile car dealership from Vision had done business in Norwich. Read more on WBNG. Even though…
More details on the FTC-LifeLock case
In light of the FTC’s action against LifeLock, and the latter’s response, I thought it might be interesting to post this statement from LifeLock’s 10-Q SEC filing for the period ending March 31, 2015: On March 13, 2014, we received a request from the FTC for documents and information related to our compliance with the…
Update on Medical Informatics Engineering breach (update3)
I’ve previously reported on the breach at Medical Informatics Engineering that affected a number of their Medical Informatics Engineering and NoMoreClipboard clients. Today, they provided an update on the breach. Much of it is a rehash of the previous notification, but there are some additional details on the types of information compromised: The affected data relating to…
UK: FoI reveals scale of financial data loss
Tessa Norman reports on the results of a freedom of information request filed with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the U.K.: Incidents reported to the regulator include a consumer credit firm which lost in transit a server containing customer details, affecting 5 million people. The regulator informed the Information Commissioner’s Office of the incident….
AU: Labor lobbyist Hawker Britton makes embarrassing email error
Daisy Dumas reports: It is the oldest PR mistake in the book — and possibly the last thing an already weakened Labor Party ally needs. Labor-aligned federal government lobbying firm Hawker Britton has accidentally revealed its contacts database in an email sent on Thursday afternoon. The message was sent to to more than 1000 email addresses,…