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: U.S.
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…
IN: Woman given probation for role in ID theft scheme
Following up on a previously noted insider breach in the financial sector… NWI reports: A woman was sentenced Thursday to five years on probation and ordered to pay $47,449 in restitution to Fifth Third Bank for an identity theft scam, U.S. District Court records show. Kathryn Jackson was employed as a lead customer service representative…
Healthfirst notifying 5,300 members whose data were stolen between 2012-2014
Healthfirst, 100 Church Street, New York, New York 10007, is notifying approximately 5300 affected members and past members that their personal information may have been compromised in the course of a criminal fraud scheme perpetrated against Healthfirst. Social Security numbers and credit card information were not affected. On May 27, 2015, Healthfirst was informed by the Department of…
Georgia Division Of Aging Services Notifies 3,000 Clients Of Data Breach
Randy L. Key reports: Georgia’s Department of Human Services Division of Aging Services has notified approximately 3,000 clients in the Community Care Services Program of an unauthorized disclosure of their protected health information. The Department has identified the root cause of the issue, which involved the inadvertent disclosure of certain health diagnoses of affected program…
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…