Martin Moylan reports: Two federal regulatory agencies have fined U.S. Bank $9 million and ordered the company to pay $48 million in restitution to customers unfairly billed for identity theft protection. The action affects more than 420,000 consumers who signed up for theft protection from 2003 to 2012. The Office of the Comptroller of the…
WA: Yakima County office computers no longer have virus
Ada Chong reports: A computer virus that hit some Yakima County offices has been fixed. It hit machines in the prosecutor’s office, the courts and the Department of Corrections medical office. The virus encrypted content of attached drives on three computers. It caused a screen to pop up and ask the user for money. There’s…
Benesse ordered to improve personal info management after data theft
Kyodo News provides an update to a breach involving education services provider Benesse. The breach was disclosed in July: The industry ministry on Friday ordered Benesse Corp. to improve its management of personal information after the company was embroiled in Japan’s biggest-ever data theft. The company’s investigative team has found that some 28.95 million customers…
Hurt introduces ACA privacy bill
Elizabeth O’Roark, Savannah Simpson, and Will Marshall report: Reps. Robert Hurt, R-Charlottesville, and John Barrow, D-Ga., introduced a bill Monday which would allow Healthcare.gov users to remove their permanent profile from the website to safeguard their privacy. H.R. 5610, also known as the Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act, on Monday. Read more on The Cavalier Daily.
NZ: Call for extra patient privacy protection
Radio New Zealand reports: The Privacy Commissioner is warning the storage of millions of New Zealand’s health records online puts them at risk of cyber attacks and snooping. John Edwards released a new report on three electronic shared care record systems, that said while they were appropriately mitigating privacy risks, continued attention to privacy was…
UK: Three Aberdeen council workers sacked for breaching data protection rules
David Ewen reports: Three Aberdeen council workers have been sacked for accessing private information about people, the Evening Express can reveal today. The former employees of Aberdeen City Council got their marching orders after breaching the Data Protection Act. A further nine members of staff were reprimanded for misconduct, which included leaking information from a…