When the economy’s tough, people generally do not want to resign from their jobs, but in the wake of an embarrassing data breach, Carol Vaughn reports: The Accomack County employee whose county-issued laptop computer was stolen from a Las Vegas hotel room earlier this month has resigned. The information technology department employee, who was supervised…
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MetLife reports employee snooped on files of public figures
MetLife, who reported in August that an employee had been sharing disability insurance applications with an unauthorized individual, recently received more bad news. According to a letter they sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the third-party provider whose database they use to run searches on individuals in the course of their business recently…
Midtown Motors’ login to TransUnion compromised, credit reports accessed
Credit reporting agency TransUnion has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that compromise of customer Midtown Motors’ login information resulted in the unauthorized access to an unspecified number of individuals’ credit reports. In their letter, TransUnion states that the compromise was no fault of the customer’s (then how did it happen?), and TransUnion will…
What’s the actual cost of a FACTA breach?
We’ve seen some impressive figures for the cost of data breaches, but what’s the cost of a FACTA breach? Has anyone seen any analysis of actual costs in resolved or settled cases? Back in May 2009, Olive Garden settled a class action lawsuit stemming from alleged violations of FACTA. Because receipts included more than…
Johns Hopkins University e-mail attachment error exposed personal info
Johns Hopkins University has notified the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services of a breach involving 692 of its Applied Physics Laboratory employees’ dependents. Because HHS’s breach logs don’t provide a lot of detail, I contacted JHU for additional information on the incident. As I have come to expect from them, they promptly responded with…
Medical records found at public recycling dumpster
Chellie Mills of KFOR reports that hundreds of folders containing medical records and Social Security Numbers were found at the Norman Recycling Center. The files appear to be associated with two medical practices in the Norman, Oklahoma area: Norman Pediatric Associates and Norman Urology. A lawyer for the latter practice said: Walters says, “They were…