Google to Give Data To Brazilian Court: Request Differs From US"s. it says
Google Inc., which refused in the past year to hand over user search data to U.S. authorities fighting children"s access to pornography, said yesterday that it was complying with a Brazilian court"s orders to turn over data that could help identify users a...
Patient info on stolen computer (LabCorp)
A medical lab is notifying patients that a computer with sensitive personal information was stolen from its Prospect Plains Road sample-collection center. LabCorp is identifying patients who may have had their names and Social Security numbers on a compu...
Personal Data Of Chicago Employees Stolen
Thousands of city employees could be at risk of identity theft following the theft of a laptop computer from a city contractor, and a delay of more than a year in reporting the theft to the proper personnel within the company, according to a release from t...
Bank To Pay $50 Million For Buying Personal Data
A bank has been ordered to pay a $50 million settlement for buying more than 650,000 names and addresses from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, which filed an amicus brief in favor of ...
Study: Rethink the Outsider Threat
If an attacker gains access to authorized user privileges to break into your network, it"ll cost you more than a malware attack. That"s what a new report released today by Trusted Strategies concludes: The average cost per event to an organization hit wi...
Introducing the Data Loss Database - Open Source
Since July of 2005, attrition.org has been tracking data loss and data theft incidents not just from the United States, but across the world. Our archives go back to the year 2000, and with over 142 MILLION records compromised in over 300 incidents across ...
PDAs sold on eBay "loaded with sensitive data"
Most used smartphones and PDAs for sale online are loaded with sensitive data ranging from banking records to corporate emails that can easily be retrieved by hackers and data thieves, it was alleged today. According to a sampling by mobile security softw...