BBC reports on a case mentioned previously on this blog: A police officer has been dismissed from her job after her conviction for stealing and selling details of accident victims. Sugra Hanif was found guilty along with her lover Raza Khan of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office following a trial in January. Read more…
UK: KCOM caught in yet ANOTHER customer privacy snafu
Kelly Fiveash reports on several breaches at KCOM that had not been previously reported on this blog: Hull-based telco KCOM has coughed to another privacy clanger – this time admitting to wrongly sharing some of its customers’ email addresses with other subscribers. But it’s unclear whether the ISP has turned itself into the Information Commissioner’s…
Ca: Etobicoke General Hospital laptop theft exposes thousands of hospital records
CBC News reports: Medical records for thousands of patients at Etobicoke General Hospital could be in the wrong hands following the theft of a laptop. CBC News has learned the personal details of 5,500 patients — including names, dates of birth and diagnostic reports — were on a laptop that was stolen in mid-January from…
AvMed Data Breach Class Action Settlement Gets Final Approval – Payment To Be Made To Class Members Who Did Not Experience ID Theft
Mark S. Melodia, Steven Boranian, Frederick Lah and Melissa A. Geist comment on the AvMed breach lawsuit settlement. The AvMed breach involving a stolen laptop with unencrypted information on 1.2 million people and lawsuit have been mentioned numerous times on the companion PHIprivacy.net blog (coverage linked from here). Last week, a judge for the Southern District…
AvMed Data Breach Class Action Settlement Gets Final Approval – Payment To Be Made To Class Members Who Did Not Experience ID Theft
Mark S. Melodia, Steven Boranian, Frederick Lah and Melissa A. Geist comment on the AvMed breach lawsuit settlement. The AvMed breach and lawsuit have been mentioned numerous times on this blog (coverage linked from here). Last week, a judge for the Southern District of Florida gave final approval to a settlement between health insurance provider AvMed and…
OANDA notifies clients registered for fxPense service to change passwords
The text of a customer notification letter from OANDA, as seen on the California Attorney General’s website: We are writing to inform you of an unauthorized breach affecting some of our clients, which occurred on the morning of Monday March 3, 2014. Please note that this incident did not impact the fxTrade services, client trades or…