Jana Winter of Fox News reports that the Secret Service – the agency that is often involved in investigations of data breaches – had its own breach back in 2008 that is now (finally?) under investigation: The Secret Service is the target of an investigation into an “immense breach” involving the loss of two backup computer…
Category: Of Note
Advanced Data Processing employee accessed and disclosed ambulance patients’ info to others for tax refund fraud scheme
Advanced Data Processing, a subsidiary of Intermedix Corp. that does business as ADPI, handles billing for a number of ambulance services throughout the U.S. The Florida-headquartered firm notified the California Attorney General’s Office this week that on October 1, they discovered a rogue employee had been accessing and disclosing patient information to others who used the information to file fraudulent…
UK: 100,000 members of Civil Service Sports Club are first being told their details were stolen by fraudsters in 2010
Hannah Furness reports: More than 100,000 civil servants and public sector workers have been warned their personal details may have been stolen in a bid to defraud the Government. Members of the Civil Service Sports Club, which has 130,000 members nationwide, have been told their names, addresses, dates of birth and National Insurance numbers have…
IRS says states must encrypt electronic tax records; Governor Haley attempts to extricate her feet from her mouth (UPDATED)
UPDATE: See comment by Don Moffett below this post who notes that the Governor was actually correct and the IRS’s statement is incorrect. Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina should stop talking about the massive databreach at the Department of Revenue and let someone who actually knows something about data security speak for the state….
Man arrested over theft of 9 million Greek files
CNBC reports: A Greek man has been arrested on suspicion of having stolen 9 million personal data files in what is believed to be the biggest breach of private information the country has ever seen. Police said Tuesday that the 35-year-old, whose name was not released, was found in possession of the data files that…
Breach notification done right? (Nationwide hack, updated)
I spend a lot of time criticizing breach notifications, so it’s nice when I can occasionally point to a positive example. Without considering whether the breach could have been prevented, consider this notification letter from Nationwide Insurance, dated November 16: We want to make you aware that a portion of our computer network was criminally…