The Associated Press reports that Adeniyi Adeyemi, a former computer technician at Bank of New York Mellon, pleaded guilty to computer tampering and other charges. Adeyemi reportedly admitted to stealing 2,000 other employees’ identities and then using their ID’s for years to loot about $1 million from charities. Adeyemi had been indicted in October…
UK: Data from 13,000 farmers on stolen laptop
Mark Casci reports: An organisation set up to help improve the quality of the UK dairy market has had to apologise after it lost the personal details of thousands of farmers. A laptop computer containing the names, addresses, quota details, transaction reference numbers and telephone numbers of some 13,000 farmers was stolen early last month…
Hoosiers Can Claim Dumped Medical Records
From 6News: Patients in Indiana now have a new way to retrieve sensitive information in medical records that have been dumped illegally. The attorney general’s office sorted through tens of thousands of records after investigating four cases where paper and electronic files were abandoned in Bartholomew, Shelby and Marion counties, 6News’ Rafael Sanchez reported. The…
Hospitals sued over HIV diagnosis
Jane Chen reports: Two hospitals in Xi’an City, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, have been sued for allegedly wrongly diagnosing a 70-year-old woman as HIV positive and publishing her details online. The woman surnamed Cao yesterday handed in her lawsuit to Xishan District People’s Court in her hometown in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s…
And so it starts: Blumenthal Investigating Wellpoint Security Breach
From the CTWatchdog: Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating a massive security breach that allegedly compromised private financial and health information on nearly a half million WellPoint consumers, including thousands in Connecticut. In a letter to WellPoint Inc., Blumenthal has requested detailed information about how the breach occurred, what steps have been taken to…
Bank of New York Mellon granted summary judgment in lost backup tapes lawsuit
Brandon Tavelli writes: On June 25, 2010, Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York granted summary judgment to The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. in Hammond v. The Bank of New York Mellon Corp., dismissing in its entirety a putative class action lawsuit arising from the…