Category: Compliance

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1. School officials nervous about student identity theft

   Explore Article The Sun Journal (Aug 11 2010) Government , Higher Ed , Compliance , ID Theft Prevention

   LEWISTON — A new state law requires schools to ask parents to submit their children's Social Security numbers so schools can track students' progress after they graduate from high school. That has some officials worried that schools collecting individual Social Security numbers this fall could put students at risk for things such as identif...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Maine   U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

2. Heartland Payment, Discover settle data breach claims

   Explore Article Reuters.com (Sep 2 2010) Corporate , Compliance , Data Breach

   Credit and debit card processor Heartland Payment Systems (HPY.N) agreed to pay $5 million to Discover Financial Services (DFS.N) to settle data security breach claims and said this was the final agreement with a card brand related to a cyber theft in its systems in 2008.
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Discover Financial Services   Albert Gonzalez   Heartland Payment Systems

3. Implementation of Red Flags Rule delayed until appeals court rules on lawsuit

   Explore Article Modern Medicine (Sep 2 2010) Corporate , Healthcare , Compliance

   Under intense pressure from numerous businesses and members of Congress, the FTC on May 28 delayed enforcement of the Red Flags Rule from the previous effective date of June 1, 2010, to Dec. 31. The latest action means that physician compliance likely will be delayed past that date. The extension until Dec. 31 was the fifth delay to which the ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   FTC   Washington   Health Insurance Portability

4. Almost 13 Million Records Breached in 2010…So Far

   View all 2 articles » Explore Article CIO - Blogs and Discussion (Aug 30 2010) Corporate , Healthcare , Higher Ed , Compliance , Data Breach

   NetworkWorld reports that businesses suffered the most breaches, making up 35% of the total. Medical and healthcare services accounted for 29.1% of breaches. The government and military made up 16.2% of breaches. Banking, credit, and financial services experienced 10.5% of breaches, and 9.2% of breaches occurred in educational institutes.
   

   Bank of America Settles Data Theft Claims - dailyfinance.com  
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Robert Siciliano   McAfee

5. Retirees vent fury over leak of data; Year of credit monitoring not enough, they say

   View all 2 articles » Explore Article delawareonline.com (Sep 1 2010) Government , Compliance , Lastest Data Breaches

   Angry state pensioners swamped Aon Consulting's phone lines Tuesday after opening their mailboxes and finding letters informing them that the benefits consultant had inadvertently posted their Social Security numbers and other personal information on the Web.
   

   Delaware state retiree data breached - delawareonline.com  
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Aon   Newark   Office of Management and Budget

6. Bad network configurations a top data breach threat, survey reveals

   Explore Article ComputerWeekly.com (Sep 1 2010) Corporate , Compliance

   Badly configured networks are one of the biggest causes of data breaches according to a majority of IT security professionals. Some 76% of IT professionals polled at the Defcon 18 hacking conference in Las Vegas said badly configured networks are the easiest IT resource to exploit.
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Las Vegas

7. FTC Halts Cross Border Domain Name Registration Scam

   Explore Article Federal Trade Commission (Aug 9 2010) Consumer , Compliance

   Thousands of Small Businesses and Non-profits Billed for Bogus Renewal Fees
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   FTC   Canadian   Chicago

8. A proposed federal data security law… one more time!

   View all 9 articles » Explore Article wistechnology.com (Aug 25 2010) Government , Compliance

   Over the past month, two different bills have been proposed in Congress to address federal data security requirements. The most comprehensive of the two, and the one garnering the most attention is S. 3742, referred to as the “Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2010.” The bill was introduced on August 5, 2010 by Senators Mark Pryor (...
   

   Senators Want Breach Law Across Industries - Insurance Networking News  
   New Senate Legislation Tackles Data Breaches, Echoes HITECH Act - ihealthbeat.org  
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   FTC   Massachusetts   U.S. Chamber of Commerce

9. With No Harm Threshold, Nearly All Breaches Substantiated in CA

   View all 3 articles » Explore Article healthleadersmedia.com (Aug 26 2010) Healthcare , Compliance , Data Breach

   California, the state that signed a precedent-setting privacy law, fields more than 220 notifications of potential breaches from licensed facilities per month, according to numbers released by the state's Department of Public Health.
   

   California Legislation Would Require Companies To Specify The Data Exposed In Breaches - Dark Reading  
   Calif. breach notification bill going back to the governor - scmagazineus.com  
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   California   Department of Public Health

10. Attorney General Announces Investigation Into Yale Security Breach

    View all 2 articles » Explore Article Connecticut Watchdog (Aug 19 2010) Government , Higher Ed , Compliance

    Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced today that his office is investigating a data breach after Yale Medical School reported the theft of a laptop containing personal health information involving as many as 1,000 individuals. Blumenthal’s office is investigating to determine the causes of the breach and whether state or federal law...
    

    Almost one in four security breaches affected health centers in 2010: survey - DOTmed.com  
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Richard Blumenthal

11. VARs warned of ID theft dangers

    Explore Article channelweb.co.uk (Aug 25 2010) Corporate , Compliance

    Channel firms must do more to protect themselves against identity theft, the Identity Fraud Communication Awareness Group (IFCAG) has warned.
    

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12. ITRC Study: Loss of Credit Card Information and Merchant Data Breach Cited As Priority Concerns To Consumers

    Explore Article Dark Reading (Aug 19 2010) Consumer , Corporate , Compliance

    The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) today announced that 87 percent of consumers who have made a purchase or bank transaction online in the past month are concerned about the safety of the personal identifying and financial information they transmit. The findings are part of the ITRC’s 2010 national survey to monitor trends in “Consumer C...
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Jay Foley   Itrc   San Diego

13. Petri Bill Would Enlist IRS Against Identity Theft

    Explore Article American Chronicle (Aug 18 2010) Consumer , Government , Compliance

    The Petri-Bean bill - the Social Security Identity Defense (SSIDA) Act - would require the IRS to inform a taxpayer when his or her Social Security number has been used fraudulently to gain employment; provide that the IRS share this information with the FBI and allow the FBI to make facts available to state and local law enforcement agencies;...
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Melissa Bean   FBI   Federal Trade Commission

14. Medical council files motion in red-flags case

    Explore Article home.modernhealthcare.com (Aug 19 2010) Government , Healthcare , Compliance

    The Council of Medical Specialty Societies, a Chicago-based organization that counts among its members 30 medical societies and some 600,000 physicians, has filed a motion to intervene on an existing case that seeks to block the Federal Trade Commission from making doctors follow the same “red flags” rule as banks for preventing, detecting and...
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Federal Trade Commission

15. New Hampshire amends law to permit certain deductions from wages

    Explore Article Lexology (Aug 18 2010) Corporate , Compliance

    New Hampshire recently amended its wage and hour law to permit employers to make deductions from employees’ wages for “legal plans and identity theft plans without financial advantage to the employer when the employee has given his or her written authorization and deductions are fully recorded.” The amendment becomes effective on August 13, 2010.
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   New Hampshire

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