Lucy Battersby reports: Telstra has accidentally leaked personal details of 570 customers after an employee sent an email to customers waiting for products rather than the stores delivering the products. An attachment containing customer names, general location and email addresses was sent to store owners asking them to update the order status. However, the Telstra…
Easy Numbers for ID Theft, Tossed Around by the Military
Matt Richtel reports: The government warns Americans to closely guard their Social Security numbers. But it has done a poor job of protecting those same numbers for millions of people: the nation’s soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. […] That is the conclusion of a scathing new report written by an Army intelligence officer turned West…
Jp: Police seize personal info on Internet subscribers after terrorism data leak
As a follow-up to a serious data breach in Japan: Tokyo police have seized personal information and Internet access records of subscribers from two Internet service providers (ISPs), suspecting that police documents on international terrorism possibly leaked online via their systems, officials said. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) seized the information on suspicion of obstruction…
WV: Agency seeks input on health information security, privacy
Taylor Kuykendall reports: The West Virginia agency charged with creating a digital exchange of health information is seeking public comment on new security and privacy policies before entering its 2011 pilot of the program.The West Virginia Health Information Network is the result of a public and private partnership created in 2006 to enable medical professionals…
Private health info faxed dozens of times
Tighter rules for faxing medical documents are needed after a privacy breach last year, Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says. Information and privacy commissioner Gary Dickson said Monday that after a Saskatoon medical clinic changed its fax number, another business in town got its old number — and received 60 faxes containing private health information. Read more…
(Update) FL: Woman sentenced for stealing identity to get bigger breast implants
Jon Burstein of the Sun-Sentinel brings us up-to-date on a case of medical identity theft covered previously on this site. A Tamarac woman who broke the law to get bigger breast implants was sentenced Monday morning to two and a half years in federal prison. Shatarka Nuby, 29, pleaded guilty in August to aggravated identity theft and a…