July 21st, 2007
A government contractor handling sensitive health information for 867,000 U.S. service members and their families acknowledged yesterday that some of its employees sent unencrypted...
June 27th, 2007
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association’s illegal and unethical plan to sell data to large employers on all 79 million Blues enrollees against...
June 14th, 2007
The Veterans Affairs Department has set aside more than $20 million to respond to its latest data breach, the agency’s top technology officer said...
May 31st, 2007
When it comes to prying into personal information of fellow company employees, many information-technology professionals could qualify for a black belt in snooping, a...
May 11th, 2007
The medical testing arm of pharmaceutical giant Roche has exposed the personal and medical details of UK customers on its website. The firm has...
May 4th, 2007
The biggest known theft of credit-card numbers in history began two summers ago outside a Marshalls discount clothing store near St. Paul, Minn. There,...
April 15th, 2007
Some lending companies with access to a national database that contains confidential information on tens of millions of student borrowers have repeatedly searched it...
April 12th, 2007
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center was trying to figure out how private information for about 80 patients, including names and Social Security numbers...
March 30th, 2007
At least 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers from customers in the United States, Britain and Canada were stolen over a period of...
March 23rd, 2007
In regard to Todd Sloane’s article Privacy could be IT standards’ deal-breaker: There are two kinds of privacy concerns–liability to patients from unauthorized access...
