Once again, a reminder that the local business you trust with your tax or bank account information may not be worthy of your trust. A Pembroke Pines, Florida, couple pleaded guilty for conspiring to use stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service. According to court documents, between July 2009 and…
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Alaska Orthopedic Specialists Notifies Patients of Security Incident
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 22, 2016 — Alaska Orthopedic Specialists has sent notification to all affected patients about a security incident involving information that was taken by a former non-physician employee. In March of 2015, Alaska Orthopedic Specialists, Inc., closed its medical practice in Anchorage, Alaska. In the course of closing the business later that year, the practice discovered that the…
In: Sector V fights cyber-crime stain; TalkTalk customers scammed by rogue Wipro employees
Dwaipayan Ghosh reports: The arrest of two Wipro employees following the crackdown on an international data theft racket has sent shockwaves across Salt Lake Sector V, the IT hub of Bengal. Though many tech firms have hurriedly opted for data insurance, most of them are not sure if it is enough to secure confidentiality and…
BCCA Leaves Open The Risk Of Exposure To Vicarious Liability For Unauthorized Use Of Personal Information By Employees
Ryan Berger of Bull Housser writes: The BC Court of Appeal has affirmed the Chambers Judge’s decision in Ari v. ICBC 2015 BCCA 468. In this case, the putative plaintff advanced a proposed class action claim, alleging an ICBC employee misused personal information of 65 customers. The plaintiff alleged vicarious liability for breach of the statutory tort of invasion…
KR: Credit card firms ordered to compensate consumers for data leak
The Korea Herald reports the latest development in a massive data leak first reported at the end of 2013: A local court on Friday ordered three credit card-related companies, hit by a massive data leak in 2014, to give 100,000 won ($83) to each victim, a ruling that could set a precedent for other similar…
Alleged Scotiabank privacy breach leads to class action
The Chronicle Herald reports: An Antigonish woman has filed a proposed class action against the Bank of Nova Scotia, alleging an employee illegally accessed her personal information and then distributed it to third parties. Linda Matthews Mont filed the action in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in September 2014, alleging that at some point before March…