Roadside assistance biz praised for deploying security monitoring software and reporting workers to cops Two former workers at roadside assistance provider RAC were this week given suspended sentences after illegally copying and selling tens of thousands of lines of personal data on people involved in accidents.... [...]
That said, good ol' American healthcare system so elaborately costly, some are forced to avoid altogether UnitedHealth Group, the parent of ransomware-struck Change Healthcare, delivered some very unwelcome news for customers today as it continues to recover from the massively expensive side and disruptive digital break-in.... [...]
First: Not being able buy a meat pie with a credit card. Now this The London Clinic where the Princess of Wales had surgery at the start of this year says it is investigating claims an employee tried to access her medical records.... [...]
Ailing tech integrator takes a hard hit... share price down by up to 20% this morning Atos' share price sank as much as 20 percent this morning on confirmation that Airbus is no longer interested in buying the big data and security (BDS) parts of the crumbling tech empire …
Made public highly sensitive data on complaints about Metropolitan Police Service The London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime is being rapped by regulators for untidy tech practices that made public the personal data of hundreds of people who filed complaints against the Metropolitan Police Service.... [...]
Penny Appeal sent more than 460,000 texts asking for money to help war-torn countries, no opt out Typically it is energy improvement peddlers or debt help specialists that are disgraced by Britain's data watchdog for spamming unsuspecting households, but the latest entrant in the hall of shame is …
Data watchdog reprimands police force for confusing 2 people with same name and birthday to disastrous results The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has put the West Midlands Police (WMP) on the naughty step after the force was found to have repeatedly mixed up two people's personal data for years …
Lawsuit alleges it misled investors with claims new AI products were 'facilitating greater platformization' and more Updated Palo Alto Networks (PAN) is facing a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges investors were deceived about the traction of its platform tactics and hurt by an unexpectedly low billings forecast that …
Sent 5,000+ fake handsets to Apple for repair in hope of getting real ones back Two Chinese nationals are facing a maximum of 20 years in prison after being convicted of mailing thousands of fake iPhones to Apple for repair in the hope they'd be replaced with new …
Some company admin and customers data exposed, but bad guys were there for 'only' a day Prudential Financial, the second largest life insurance company in the US and eight largest worldwide, is dealing with a digital break-in that exposed some internal company and customer records to a criminal group …
It's all very well offering 'Free Debt Help,' but recipients were unwilling, says watchdog... A financial services company that illegally dispatched tens of thousands of spam messages promising to help the recipients magically wipe away their debts is itself now a debtor to the UK’s data regulator.... [...]
ICO slaps penalties on two businesses that collectively made more than 3 million cold calls Another week and yet another couple of pesky cold callers face fines from the UK's data privacy watchdog for "bombarding" unsuspecting households with marketing messages about home improvements.... [...]
Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people Food delivery company HelloFresh is nursing a £140,000 ($178k) fine by Britain’s data privacy watchdog after a probe found it had dispatched upwards of a staggering 79 million spam email and one million texts in just seven months …
Enforcement notice issued months after data regulator schooled police force Updated Greater Manchester Police (GMP) must clear the backlog of hundreds of Freedom of Information (FOI) Act requests – some years old – or find itself in contempt of court.... [...]
Scottish health group to tweak security checks, access authorization to avoid a repeat NHS Fife is on the wrong end of a stern ticking off by Britain's data regulator after it made a howling privacy error that aided an as yet unknown person who had entered a hospital ward …
'High-pressure' sales tactics targeted people registered with Telephone Preference Service A "debt management company" is itself facing a bill from Britain's data regulator for sending hundreds of thousands of text messages to households that opted not to receive marketing junk mail.... [...]
Simpson Manufacturing yanks systems offline, warns of ongoing disruption Simpson Manufacturing Company yanked some tech systems offline this week to contain a cyberattack it expects will "continue to cause disruption."... [...]
All sites operational, no 'material' financial impact expected but stock markets still worried Volex, the British integrated maker of critical power and data transmission cables, confirmed this morning that intruders accessed data after breaking into its tech infrastructure.... [...]
Progress Software vulnerability ID'd in enormous burglary at Ontario's BORN Canada's Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) fears a MOVEit breach allowed cybercriminals to copy 3.4 million people's childcare health records dating back more than a decade.... [...]
Five businesses facing half a million in collective penalties for illegally phoning folk registered with TPS The UK data watchdog has penalized five businesses it says collectively made 1.9 million cold calls to members of the public, illegally, as those people had opted out of being menaced at …
Back to 'manual' order processing for $7B household cleaning biz, financial impact will be 'material' The Clorox Company, makers of bleach and other household cleaning products, doesn't expect operations to return to normal until near month end as it combs over "widescale disruption to operations" caused by cyber baddies …
Pensioners, employees and medical pros among those aiming to be compensated for data exposure The number of claimants signing up to a collective action against Capita over the infamous March cyber security break-in and subsequent data exposure keeps going up, according to the lawyer overseeing the case.... [...]
Did you potentially miss the love match of your life in week-long blackout? Nope, nobody could access it If you got snubbed by the object of your affections on dating app Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB) in late August, don't feel bad, the company says its systems were down due …
Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies admit to accidentally including raw crime data in FoI responses Norfolk and Suffolk police have stepped forward to admit that a “technical issue” resulted in raw data pertaining to crime reports accidentally being included in Freedom of Information responses.... [...]
Operating expenses almost as high as actual turnover in latest quarterly numbers Rapid7 is initiating a restructuring process that will involve shedding 18 percent of its workforce after net losses widened over the most recent quarter.... [...]