NetDiligence has released its 2013 report on “Cyber Liability & Data Breach Insurance Claims” based on actual claims submitted: This report summarizes our findings for a sampling of 145 data breach insurance claims, 140 of which involved the exposure of sensitive data in a variety of sectors, including government, healthcare, hospitality, financial services, professional services, retail and…
Resource: Cyber Arrest Tracker
Lee Johnstone has created another resource for us all: a cyber arrest tracker. The chart includes the individuals’ names, screen names, criminal indictments, and other details. The tracker already has 83 entries in it. Check it out and bookmark it here. URL updated to reflect new dedicated domain.
PA: Personal information of Rent-A-Center customers discovered in Port Richmond dumpster
John Rawlins reports: A sharp eyed city Streets Department sanitation officer came across critical personal information casually tossed in a Port Richmond dumpster. The discovery took place outside the Rent-A-Center at Aramingo and Ontario. “What I discovered was several different folders with fully filled out credit applications for Rent-A-Center,” Officer Brian Chavis of Sanitation Enforcement…
Consumers' Use of Mobile Health Apps Limited, Report Finds
Interesting, and not what I expected. iHealthBeat reports: Few health-related mobile applications have gained popularity among consumers, according to a new report by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, NPR’s “Shots” reports (Shute, “Shots,” NPR, 10/30). Read more here.
Former employee of contractor obtained Baltimore County workers’ personal data
Alison Knezevich reports: Baltimore County authorities say they found Social Security numbers and other personal information from more than 12,000 current and former county workers on the computer of a man who used to work for a county information-technology contractor. The man is in custody in another state and is to be extradited to Maryland to face charges in an unrelated…
NZ: Fidelity Life Insurance reports breach
A USB stick with sensitive information about 1200 clients of a life insurance company – including personal bank account details – has been stolen from an employee’s car. Fidelity Life chief executive Milton Jennings said the stick had been in an employee’s satchel which he left in his car as he attended a meeting at…