James Chilton reports: A House committee on Thursday approved two Senate bills related to private information and companies’ duties in notifying clients of data breaches. The House Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee unanimously approved Senate Files 35 and 36. SF35 would establish the actions companies must take if they learn that clients’ personal information…
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U.S. states say Anthem too slow to inform customers about breach
Jim Finkle reports: Ten U.S. states have sent a letter to Anthem Inc complaining that the company has been too slow in notifying consumers that they were victims of a massive data breach disclosed last week. “The delay in notifying those impacted is unreasonable and is causing unnecessary added worry to an already concerned population…
Jeb Bush exposes 12,000 to ID theft after posting emails online
AP reports: It was meant to be a politically astute gesture of transparency, and would prove his tech credentials to boot. But when Jeb Bush posted online all his personal emails from his eight years as Florida’s governor, he failed to realise that tucked away in the 332,999 messages were the names, birthdates and Social…
OR: Convicted ID thief found with ‘how to’ guide, DMV database
Brent Weisberg reports: Joe V. Johansen was arrested Jan. 30 by officers with the Portland Police Bureau’s Street Crimes Unit that operates out of East Precinct. […] In the affidavit that requested an increase for bail, Jackson wrote Portland police officers Michael Strawn and Patrick Mawdsley received a downloaded copy of a computer that Johansen…
Anthem says hackers had access to customer data back to 2004
Chad Terhune reports: Insurance giant Anthem Inc. said Thursday that hackers had access to customer data going back to 2004 as investigations continue into the massive breach. I would not take that to mean that the Anthem is not retaining data that goes back before 2004, but only that the database the hackers accessed went…
Jeb Bush Redacting Sensitive Information in Email Dump
Shushannah Walshe report: Jeb Bush’s political action committee are redacting constituent Social Security numbers (SSNs) that were in his massive e-mail release Tuesday and they are laying the blame for the blunder squarely on the state of Florida, noting they tried to stop this from even happening last year. The potential 2016 presidential candidate released over 275,000 e mails in the…