There are bad breaches, and then there are the ones where words like “despicable,” “evil,” “immoral,” “disgusting,” and “reprehensible” just seem too weak to express how decent people might feel. This case out of Texas is one of those. Here is DOJ’s press release issued today: The CEO of a Texas-based group of hospice and…
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Marketing Company Agrees to Pay $150 Million for Facilitating Elder Fraud Schemes
January 27 — Epsilon Data Management LLC (Epsilon), one of the largest marketing companies in the world, has entered into a settlement with the Department of Justice to resolve a criminal charge for selling millions of Americans’ information to perpetrators of elder fraud schemes. Epsilon entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the Consumer…
AU: Woolworths gave customer data to NSW Health
Casey Tonkin reports: Woolworths gave data about customers who use its Everyday Rewards scheme to NSW Health in order to assist contact tracers. At the outbreak of the recent Berala cluster linked to a BWS in Sydney’s west, Woolworths analysed information from its Everyday Rewards loyalty scheme to find customers who visited the store at times when…
UK: 150,000 Arrest Records Lost in Police Data Accident
Michael Behr reports: The information was deleted as part of a routine cleaning of police databases. The arrest records of around 150,000 people have been accidentally wiped from a police database. Data such as fingerprints, DNA, and arrest histories were lost last week, according to the Times, which broke the story. The Home Office has said that the…
Eneco warns customers for data breach: ‘Change your password, personal data may have been accessed’
The following is a translation of an alert on Opgelicht?! Energy supplier Eneco is warning (former) customers of a possible data breach: they have established that cyber criminals have managed to gain access to the accounts of 1,700 customers and that personal information may have been stolen. What you need to know? Last week, Eneco…
ZA: Government to replace Sassa grant cards after security breach
BusinessTech staff report: Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu says that government is in talks with stakeholders to replace South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) cards after a security breach, first reported in 2019. Responding to a written parliamentary Q&A in December, Zulu said that Sassa cards are actually bank cards issued by the South…