Tony Romm writes: Congress failed to pass a new federal law last year requiring the litany of companies affected by data breaches — from gaming giant Sony to shoe e-tailer Zappos — to notify consumers. But now some lawmakers believe they have a new route for passage: the Senate’s upcoming cybersecurity reform bill. Read more…
MN: Global financial fraud case goes to trial in Minneapolis
Dan Browning covers what sounds like a huge fraud ring prosecution: A world map splattered with red dots shows the reach of a massive identity-theft case that went to trial this week in federal court in Minneapolis. Jurors will hear testimony about what prosecutors describe as a sophisticated international conspiracy that stole and counterfeited thousands…
IN: AG Investigates Cardinal Fitness Dumped Documents
I love when local media report on breaches and the state then investigates. Here’s another example: Deputy Attorney General Chuck Taylor launched an investigation after a Dumpster containing credit card numbers and receipts was found sitting outside a closed Indianapolis fitness center. Viewers first contacted RTV6 when the discarded personal information was found outside of…
UK: Children’s centre loses sensitive family details
From This is North Devon: Sensitive personal data on a number of vulnerable families who use a specialist children’s centre in North Devon has been stolen. The confidential information on 45 families was on a USB computer data stick. It was lost when a member of staff at the Victoria House Children’s Centre in Barnstaple,…
MA: Hospital investigating how patient papers got lost
John Zaremba reports: St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center is scrambling to figure out how files containing patient information wound up on the ground outside a Charlestown office complex, miles from the hospital’s Brighton campus. An employee of Roadrunner Moving and Storage found the paperwork Friday outside the company’s Terminal Drive offices, near the landmark Schrafft center,…
UK: Contractor breach affected a number of councils’ employees
A leak previously noted on this blog may have affected a number of councils’ employees. Chris Murphy reports that Medway Council is the latest council to reveal its employees’ data have been exposed on the Internet. Council staff and bosses have been left fuming after sensitive personal information was leaked online – sparking a major…