Clearly I’m not the only one who was unimpressed with the Obama administration’s plan for a federal data breach notification law. Tracy Kitten reports: The Obama administration’s plan for a federal data breach notification policy is too vague to be effective, and it lacks teeth to penalize violators, critics say. Read more on BankInfoSecurity.com.
CA: Laptop Stolen from Eye Doctor
Jennifer Wadsworth reports: Someone broke into an eye doctor’s office on May 8 and stole a laptop with information about hundreds of patients. The burglar broke into the offices of EyeCare Associates of the San Ramon Valley and took the laptop, which held eye photos and names of 611 patients. There was a lock on…
Teenage duo sentenced over credit card Ghostmarket
Dan Goodin has more about a case mentioned yesterday on this blog. Two UK teenagers received sentences for repeated hack attacks that stole credit card data and took one online webhost offline. Zachary Woodham, 19, and Louis Tobenhouse, 18, pleaded guilty to the online offenses in late December, members of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Police…
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Editor’s Note: the content of the blog entry that originally appeared on May 17, 2011 has been deleted on August 30, 2012 after it was brought to this site’s attention that the original source had removed their story and that it may not have been accurate. That’s the second time a news story from NDTV…
Medical records vulnerable (updated)
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of Associated Press reports: The nation’s push to computerize medical records has failed to fully address longstanding security gaps that expose patients’ most sensitive information to hackers and snoops, government investigators warn. Two reports released today by the inspector general of the Health and Human Services Department find that the drive to connect…
Oakland police shut down Bay Area-wide identity theft operation
Harry Harris reports: Calling it the biggest they have seen, Oakland police said Monday that an identify theft operation that manufactured phony checks, IDs and credit cards has been shut down. Officials said there are potentially thousands of victims all over the Bay Area and in other states. The operation was run out of a…