Steve Jefferson of WTHR reports that during a burglary and ransacking of a business building, the burglar stole a file cabinet full of sensitive information including names, Social Security numbers, and birth dates. Stealing a file cabinet…… for the information? Could this be the second report this week of burglaries specifically going for information?
Calif. bill to protect Social Security numbers, medical records and other personal data
Jake Henshaw of The Californian reports: Social Security numbers, medical records and other personal data could get more protection from disclosure if a bill that passed its first legislative review Tuesday becomes law. Assembly Bill 1094 by Assemblywoman Connie Conway, R-Tulare, is intended to plug a legal hole on how landlords should handle personal records…
UK: 5,600 patients’ records ‘lost’ on memory stick
Claire Lomax of Telegraph & Argus reports that personal information of patients was on an unsecured flash drive lost by an employee of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust who did not follow procedures. The flash drive, which was reportedly lost in the library at Leeds Metropolitan University on April 21, contained patients’ names, addresses,…
Ca: More patients’ data lost
Adam Huras of The Telegram reports on two small recent breaches in New Brunswick and Ontario involving patient data. In one case, after searching for months to locate missing files of three patients, patients were sent letters notifying them of the loss. That’s when the health authority discovered that one of the three patients had…
AU: Online share trader CommSec vulnerable to hackers
Nick Higginbottom and Stephen McMahon of Herald Sun report on how weak passwords just won’t cut it: Security at the nation’s biggest online trader has been exposed as wide open to attack by computer hackers. Security flaws at CommSec potentially endangered accounts containing billions of dollars of mum-and-dad investors’ money. After a Herald Sun investigation,…
UK: Barclaycard apologises to widow for 317-strong letter error
Gill Montia of Banking Times reports: Barclaycard has had to apologise to a Mrs Sandra Grant of Erith in Kent, after sending her 317 letters in one day. The recently widowed 55-year-old said it took her all morning to open the post, which contained details of various Barclaycard customers, including account numbers, names and amounts…