Cox Communications will pay nearly US $600,000 to settle Federal Communications Commission (FCC) charges regarding a breach that exposed customer data. The incident occurred in August 2014 and compromised addresses, driver’s license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers (SSNs). The FCC said that Cox did not provide adequate security for the data and that the… Read More: Cox Communications Settles FCC Charges »
According to a study from Verizon, nearly 20 percent of breaches involving healthcare information are not detected for at least one year. This is due in part to the fact that some organizations outside the healthcare sector are unaware that they have healthcare data stored in their systems. Twenty percent of healthcare breaches of health… Read More: Non-Healthcare Companies Have Exposed Personal Health Information in Breaches »
A breach of sanriotown.com has exposed the personal information of 3.3 million Hello Kitty users. The database may have been open to intruders for more than a month. The vulnerable database was found by the same person who recently discovered the unprotected MacKeeper database. The Register story NBC News Wired story
Europrivacy.info is organizing a meeting to start talking and working on the recently approved text of the GDPR on January 29 in Milan. This is just a “save the date”: more info will follow soon.
While waiting for the official announcement from the EU Council, expected by next week, hereafter there is a link to the final version of the GDPR which was agreed upon yesterday: last version
As mentioned in the previous post, on November 13th the XI National Congress of ANSSAIF (National Association of Security Specialists in Companies of Financial Intermediation) was held in Rome, on the theme of ‘Digital Services, Security, Network – What knowledge and what tools to address new threats?’. The appointment, rich of illustrious and interesting interventions,… Read More: Results of the online Survey about Security and Privacy on… »
The Electronic Frontier Foundation learned that more than 100 automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras were exposed online. In some cases, the camera live streams could be accessed. ALPR systems capture images of license plates and alert authorities when they spot a plate on the “hot list.” The data are collected and stored even if… Read More: License Plate Reader Data Exposed »
Sony will pay up to US $8 million to settle claims against the company over a breach that exposed employee information. The settlement calls for a maximum of US $10,000 per person affected for losses incurred due to identity theft; a maximum of US $1,000 per person for fraud protection services. US $3.5 million is… Read More: Sony Settles (Some Claims) Over Breach »
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is proposing to create a temporary database of people whose personal information was stolen in the colossal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach. The purpose of the database will be to identify who is eligible for identity-theft protection services. The breach affected more than 21 million federal employees. Nextgov… Read More: OPM Breach Database of Victims »
The most important Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, day after day reports headlines concerning the topic “privacy”: on Tuesday 10th an interview with Tim Cook, Apple CEO, where privacy is defined “a right” that Internet companies must respect to avoid a dramatic crisis in the future; the day after, Microsoft’s Nadella declares (see below) that… Read More: Personal data protection in the headlines »