Gregor Hunter reports: A bank blunder has revealed the personal email details of scores of HSBC’s high-income customers for the second time in two years. The security breach occurred after a mass email was sent on Sunday morning to 178 customers of HSBC Premier, the bank’s account level for high earners, advising them that it…
Update: Suspected hacker in Hyundai Capital incident arrested in Philippines
A suspected hacker wanted on suspicion of stealing customer data earlier this year from Hyundai Capital, an affiliate of South Korea’s top automaker, has recently been arrested in the Philippines, police here said Monday. The 35-year-old man, identified only by his surname Shin, allegedly broke into the computer system of the financial firm several times…
Dumfries and Galloway Council gets rap on the knuckles and undertaking for web exposure breach
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Dumfries and Galloway Council breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally publishing a spreadsheet containing the names, salaries and dates of birth of nearly 900 current and former employees on their website, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The personal information – which was mistakenly disclosed as part of…
MA: Spectrum says personal, health care info stolen
A local health systems company said a stolen hard drive contains personal and protected health information of some of its clients. According to a statement from Spectrum, no financial information was on the hard drive, and the data was double password protected. However, it was not encrypted because it was being used temporarily, and patient…
Medical identity theft a growing problem
Pamela Lewis Dolan reports: One-third of health care organizations, including physician practices, insurers and pharmacies, have reported catching a patient using the identity of someone else to obtain services, according to a report from the professional services firm PwC. […] Medical identity theft is still a small percentage of the total amount of identity theft…
GA: Law firm's documents dumped in trash
Ashley Fielding reports: Files containing private information of clients of one of Gainesville’s best-known attorneys showed up in the strangest of places last week — a newspaper recycling bin at The Times. The files came from the law office of Ashley Bell, a member of the Hall County Board of Commissioners, who said he wasn’t…