Brian Krebs reports: Signature Systems Inc., the point-of-sale vendor blamed for a credit and debit card breach involving some 216 Jimmy John’s sandwich shop locations, now says the breach also may have jeopardized customer card numbers at nearly 100 other independent restaurants across the country that use its products. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.
G.O.P. Error Reveals Donors and the Price of Access
Jonathan Weisman reports: In politics, it is sometimes better to be lucky than good. Republicans and Democrats, and groups sympathetic to each, spend millions on sophisticated technology to gain an advantage. They do it to exploit vulnerabilities and to make their own information secure. But sometimes, a simple coding mistake can lay bare documents and…
Ca: Health records in derelict buildings 'careless privacy breach'
CBC News reports: P.E.I.’s Opposition Health Critic James Aylward is demanding the provincial government move all health and financial records to a secured location at once. Earlier this week, CBC News reported that boarded-up, abandoned buildings near the Hillsborough Hospital, currently used to store some financial records and health records, have been broken into in recent…
Delaware Joins List of States Regulating Data Disposal
Jason C. Gavejian writes: On January 1, 2015, Delaware employers who dispose of records which contain the unencrypted personal identifying information of employees must take steps to ensure the privacy of such information. The bill, H.B. 294, was recently signed by Delaware’s Governor Jack Markell. Delaware also enacted a companion bill, H.B. 295, in July which imposed the…
IN: Floyd Memorial installs fingerprint scanners
Baylee Pulliam reports: Floyd Memorial Hospital hopes a tiny, glowing blue box could help improve patient care and prevent medical identity theft. The box is part of the hospital’s new partnership with technology company CrossChx, which uses unique points of patients’ fingerprints to generate a code linking them to their medical information. Read more on The…
U.S. Bank ordered to pay $48 million in restitution to theft-protection customers
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…