An unencrypted flash drive with First Transit applicants’ personal information was recently lost on a bus in Cincinnati. According to a notification sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on February 4, the stick was lost on January 21. It contained applicants’ names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security Numbers, information about applicants’ criminal…
Hawaii Considers Amendments To Data Breach Notification Law
Libbie Canter writes: Hawaii legislators have introduced several bills to amend the state’s data breach notice law. Two of these legislative measures would eliminate the “risk of harm” trigger for breach notification in Hawaii. Currently, notice to Hawaii consumers is required only “where illegal use of the [breached] personal information has occurred, or is reasonably…
UK: Police officers and staff broke data laws 67 times in three years
Often, the only way we find out the scope of a problem is when the media or activists file a freedom of information request. Some data revealed thanks to a Freedom of Information request made by the Scunthorpe Telegraph: Humberside Police officers and staff breached data protection laws 67 times in the past three years,…
UK: Around 10,000 CRB background checks land in the wrong inbox
Gwent Police is taking remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it in breach of the Data Protection Act for accidentally emailing results of Criminal Reference Bureau (CRB) checks performed by the force to a member of the public. An email containing a spreadsheet of the results of around 10,000 CRB enquiries was…
eHarmony Hacked
Brian Krebs writes: Online dating giant eHarmony has begun urging many users to change their passwords, after being alerted by KrebsOnSecurity.com to a potential security breach of customer information. The individual responsible for all the ruckus is an Argentinian hacker who recently claimed responsibility for a similar breach at competing e-dating site PlentyOfFish.com. […] Joseph…
OK: Leader of credit-card fraud plot gets seven-year sentence
David Harper reports: A California man has been sentenced in Tulsa to seven years in prison for an interstate credit-card fraud conspiracy that involved more than $100,000 and victimized 18 financial institutions ranging from Merrill Lynch to the Bank of Hawaii. Jonathan Edward Vergnetti, 39, also was ordered by U.S. District Judge James Payne this…