Florence Loyie reports: City police found a stash of stolen credit cards, driver’s licences, debit cards and computers when they arrested a man wanted on 141 warrants last Friday. Officers in the downtown division special projects team were told David Shawn Tidman, 25, was at a residence near 145th Avenue and 27th Street. […] Police…
Wrong T4s accidentally mailed to former staffers of MPs
Mike De Souza reports: The House of Commons has launched an internal probe in the wake of an “administrative error” that resulted in hundreds of personal income tax forms mailed to the wrong addresses, Canwest News Service has learned. The glitch affected 697 former staffers of members of Parliament in 2009 who received a T4…
Victim Asks Capital One, ‘Who’s in Your Wallet?’
Brian Krebs writes: In December, I wrote about how a Louisiana electronics testing firm was suing its bank, Capital One, to recover the losses after cyber thieves broke in and stole nearly $100,000. It looks like another small firm in that state that was similarly victimized by organized crooks also is suing Capital One to…
Audit: Some sensitive data at ISU not adequately secured
Kurt Erickson reports: State auditors say lax security at Illinois State University could have allowed university credit card accounts, personal health information and employee Social Security numbers to get into the wrong hands. In a report on the university’s financial practices for the year ending in June 2009, Illinois Auditor General Bill Holland said auditors…
AU: Heath identifier function creep threatens data privacy says Coalition
Kareen Dearne reports: The Senate Community Affairs committee has recommended passage of the controversial Healthcare Identifiers Bill, despite the minority Coalition members calling for amendments to ensure patient privacy and prevent personal identifiers being turned into a national identity regime. Last night, the committee recommended developing a plan to introduce the scheme over the next…
At Bronx clinic, the eyes are windows to medical records
Madison Park reports: Rafael Fernandez walks into the Bronx, New York, medical clinic, with his eyes wide open. Checking Fernandez in, a clinic employee scans his eyes using a handheld camera. Within seconds, the camera reads his iris patterns, and a computer locates his medical record. Such iris identification technology is usually seen in international…