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Commentary: ACC caught out in another privacy breach

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Dissent

It just goes from bad to worse at ACC (the Accident Compensation Corporation), it seems.  I had previously noted reports of a serious breach involving thousands of individuals’ claims.  Since the initial reports, more details have emerged that have made waves, but this newest report will have some just wanting to shut ACC down altogether….

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Breach Leaves Thousands Of Kaiser Permanente Employees Checking Their Credit Report (update)

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dissent

KXL FM reports that Kaiser Permanente has sent notifications to some current and former employees after their data were found on an external hard drive purchased in a second-hand store in September 2011: Maryann Schwab with Kaiser Permanente says names, phone numbers, social security numbers and other personal information was found on a non-Kaiser external…

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Court says France cannot use stolen bank data for searches

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dissent

AFP reports: France’s highest appeals court has ruled that authorities may not use a list of 3,000 people suspected of tax evasion as a basis to conduct searches due to its illicit origin. French authorities in January 2009 acted on a Swiss warrant and seized data about global banking giant HSBC’s customers from former computer…

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AU: Railcorp blunder as personal details offered in rail sale (updated)

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dissent

Finders, keepers? Can you just auction off lost USB drives left on trains without regard to whether they contain sensitive information? Maureen Shelley reports: A bunch of USB memory sticks, which hold private photos and data, left by passengers on Sydney trains were sold by Railcorp at a lost property auction. Computer security company Sophos,…

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College of the Holy Cross employees fall for phishing attempt, 493 notified of compromised personal information

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Dissent

No matter how many times entities warn employees about phishing attempts, it seems that some inevitably fall for them anyway. College of the Holy Cross recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that 7 of their employees had fallen for phishing attempts that originated in Nigeria and Ghana. As a result of the phishing,…

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Service Members’ Identities Stolen Via File-Sharing Used for Fraud

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Dissent

Lita Beck and Ken Kalthoff report: A California man who stole thousands of identities, including those of U.S. service members, was sentenced Thursday in Dallas to more than six years in federal prison. Rene Quimby, 42, pleaded guilty in May to one count of fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft in the case,…

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