There are times when I wish I was still teaching so that I could share an extraordinary case with psychology students and enjoy their reactions as they are challenged to think. Over the decade that I spent teaching undergraduate and graduate students, I had a handful of books that I would use to introduce and…
UK: Your confidential medical records for sale… at just £1: Hunt insists plan to sell details to private firms is vital to combat epidemics – but critics fear 'unprecedented' privacy threat
More on a government plan to allow private companies to purchase patient data from the NHS without patient knowledge or consent. Stephen Adams reports: A secret plan to sell confidential medical records to private companies for as little as £1 has been drawn up by officials. From next month, GPs will start sending detailed NHS…
Outbrain takes recommendation widget service offline after breach compromises Washington Post, others
Outbrain disabled its content recommendation service after a security breach compromised the websites of several prominent clients. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has taken credit for the attack, which is believed to have affected the Washington Post, Time, CNN, and the New York Times. Read more on TheNextWeb.
Department of Energy Hacked Again
Rachel King reports: The United States Department of Energy notified employees via an email Wednesday that hackers gained personal information, such as names and social security numbers, of 14,000 current and former agency employees as the result of a hack that occurred in late July. This is the second attack this year that involved a…
Liberty Mutual Insurance tells Schnuck Markets its insurance policy doesn’t cover data breach lawsuits and costs
If their insurer gets their way, the beleaguered Schnuck Markets will find itself without help from its insurance carrier in paying litigation costs and other data breach-related costs. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company has informed Schnuck Markets that it is not responsible to cover costs of the eight lawsuits that were filed in the wake of…
Ten Charged In D.C. Area Identity Theft Ring
Ten individuals were charged in Alexandria for their alleged involvement in a large-scale identity theft ring operating in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area since at least January 2012. According to the 16-count indictment and a related criminal complaint, Janero Blalock and Christopher Bush allegedly recruited women to steal personal information, such as social security numbers,…