An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Oxfordshire County Council. This follows an investigation into a July 2013 incident when a solicitor had removed a number of documents from the office but had dropped these in a street near their home. The documents were found the next day…
Stress, Apathy and Winning by Default: How Consumers Respond to Data Breach Notification Letters
Ozzie Fonseca writes: Data breach notification letters serve multiple purposes. They ensure a breached company is compliant with data breach notification laws, they alert consumers to the breach and their involvement in it, they can warn customers of potential identity theft risks and educate them on how to cope with those risks. The one thing…
‘Possible data security breach’ at College of the Desert
Brett Kelman reports that College of the Desert has had a second breach this month, this one involving student financial information. The college says that less than 10 students were affected by what it describes as a “possible data security breach.” Approximately 1900 employees were affected by an earlier breach this month. COD officials on Thursday did…
Central City Concern notifies employment access clients of data theft by former employee
Another recent addition to HHS’s public breach tool involved an incident at Central City Concern in Oregon. The breach, which involved “unauthorized access/disclosure” resulted in the notification of 17,914, and was listed as beginning March 23, 2010 and ending May 24, 2013. A notice linked from their homepage saying “Data Event” explains that this was a…
Salina Family Healthcare Center notifies 9,640 patients after email attachment error
A recent update to HHS’s public breach tool revealed an incident involving Salina Health Education Foundation (d/b/a Salina Family Healthcare Center) in Kansas. The April 8th incident affected 9,640 patients and was coded as “Unauthorized Access/Disclosure E-mail.” A statement dated June 2 explains: Salina Family Healthcare Center (SFHC) notified more than 500 patients of an unintentional transmission of unsecured…
FL: Hernando college student charged with hacking accounts
Kathryn Varn reports: Pasco-Hernando State College student Amanda Yost blamed her boyfriend when she noticed that emails went missing on her account with the learning management website the school uses. He liked to play World of Warcraft on her Asus laptop, and Yost, 20, thought the game had introduced a virus. But after a multiweek investigation,…