The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today published a report looking at how community healthcare providers approach data protection. Community providers are an increasingly important part of the NHS, providing cradle to grave services worth over £11 billion a year. But they often involve staff working at remote locations or off-site entirely. This brings particular…
PA: Woman Charged In A Multi-State Bank Fraud And Identity Theft Scheme
The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that an indictment was returned by a grand jury charging a New York woman with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Njeri Bowen, age 26, a resident of New York, defrauded a PNC Bank in State College and more than 25 PNC Bank…
Thieves hit 13 Wells Fargo mortgage offices in 5 states to steal IDs
Scott Daugherty reports: They drove up and down the East Coast trying to break into Wells Fargo mortgage offices, according to court documents. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maryland. Thirteen locations in all. Jeffrey “Lef” Washington and his crew weren’t interested in cash, though. The money would come later. They wanted the personal…
United website breach let fliers see each others’ private data
I reported on the United Airlines MileagePlus incident earlier this month, but now Cory Doctorow is reporting yet another breach involving United Airlines: My wife came back from giving a conference speech in Las Vegas in December with the weirdest story: when she fired up the United check-in mobile site, she found herself looking at…
UK: East Midlands Ambulance Service avoid a fine for lost medical records
The Nottingham Post reports that the East Midlands Ambulance Service, who disclosed the loss of a floppy disk with patient data from 2012 in August 2014, and then began working to improve their data protection, has gotten a bit of good news from the ICO: no further action will be taken against them by the ICO….
MI: Police investigating possible point of sale breaches
The Marquette City Police Department is investigating reports of point of sales breaches at local businesses in Marquette. And that’s all Ryan Jarvi reports. I can find no other media coverage of this investigation at this time, though.