Bare Escentuals of San Francisco has been notifying some current and former employees this week that a laptop stolen from an employee contained their names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, and some salary information. By letter dated Nov. 1 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the firm said that they had “recently” become aware of…
Privacy advocates fear massive fed health database
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Several privacy groups have raised alarms over plans by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to build a database that would contain information about the healthcare claims of millions of Americans. The concerns have surfaced because the OPM has provided few details about the new database and because the data collected…
First data fines on the way, says ICO
The ICO, who said in September that the first data fines were “imminent,” now says that they are “on the way.” Kable writes: The information commissioner will announce the first organisations to be fined for failing to protect data later this month. Christopher Graham said that the fines of up to £500,000 “give the ICO…
AFTRA notice of breach involving web site “Join Online”
IDG news reporter Bob McMillan kindly points us all to this September 29 notice on the web site of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA): Please be advised that on Sept. 29, AFTRA learned that computer hackers unlawfully accessed the Join Online portion of the AFTRA website at AFTRA.com. The hackers either…
BCBS of Tennessee provides update on breach involving stolen hard drives
Approximately one year after the theft of 57 hard drives containing member data from a leased facility in Chattanooga, BlueCross Blue Shield of Tennessee provided an update on the breach to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. BCBS had assigned the affected individuals to one of three “tiers.” Tier 1 included those whose Social Security…
NZ: Hawke’s Bay man used keyloggers to capture public wi-fi users’ bank logins
Just a man and his keylogger. A computer-hacking fraudster has been given a community-based sentence for stealing $8538 from bank accounts via the internet. Judge Tony Adeane, in Napier District Court last Friday, sentenced Hawke’s Bay man Matthew Fraser, 25, to 200 hours of community work and ordered him to repay the money. Fraser had…