Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced a lawsuit against CVS after customer records with personal information such as driver license and credit card numbers were found in the trash behind one of the drugstore chain’s Texas stores. According to Reuters… Investigators with the office of the attorney general found the documents in a dumpster behind [...]

It is now a legal action. Last summer, the British TV operator ITN did a documentary on murder of inmate Zahid Mubarek at the Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution. During the videotaping, the camerawoman included a few seconds of footage of one of the jailer’s keys. In fears that the images in the video could be [...]

Today Oracle sued competitor SAP for “corporate theft on a grand scale” claiming that its business software rival had stolen copyrighted software and other confidential materials. At the core of the case is that employees of SAP, using soon-to-expire log-in IDs from Oracle clients switching over to SAP, logged into password-protected customer support sites and [...]

The U.K.-based Nationwide Building Society has been fined $1.9 million by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over the theft of a laptop from a Nationwide employee’s home which contained confidential customer data. FSA was particularly upset that the man had put details of nearly 11 million customers on his computer and that Nationwide did not [...]

Fidelity Federal Bank & Trust of Florida has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class action lawsuit over violations of the federal law, the Driver Privacy Protection Act. At issue was that Fidelity bought the names and addresses of 565,600 motorists in Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie and Broward counties for $5,656, or [...]

Tiger Woods has settled a privacy-rights lawsuit over his yacht for $1.6 million with its builder of his boat, Privacy, Vancouver, Washington-based Christensen Shipyards Ltd. Woods claimed in the lawsuit that the company had breached its contract by using his name and photos of him and the 155-foot yacht as promotional materials without authorization. Commentary:How [...]

ADP said it gave personal data on tens of thousands of brokerage customers to someone who impersonated company officials. The information included names, addresses and the number of shares owned by individual investors, but did not include account numbers or Social Security numbers and would not allow unauthorized people to trade in the accounts. The [...]

Fidelity Federal Bank & Trust of Florida has agreed to pay $50 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over violations of the federal law, the Driver Privacy Protection Act. At issue was that Fidelity bought the names and addresses of 565,600 motorists in Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie and Broward counties for $5,656, or a [...]

ChoicePoint has agreed to pay $15 million to settle charges that its security and record-handling procedures violated consumer privacy rights and federal laws. The settlement requires ChoicePoint to implement new procedures ensuring the provision of consumer reports only to legitimate businesses and for lawful purposes; to establish and maintain a comprehensive information security program; and [...]

Federal prosecutors accused Roger Duronio of creating the software logic bomb which had been designed to wipe out files on the 2,000 main servers for UBS and cripple the company. Duronio faces federal charges in his trial, including charges of securities fraud and computer sabotage, and could be looking at 30 years in jail, $1 [...]

Thieves took sensitive personal information on 26.5 million U.S. veterans, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, after a Veterans Affairs employee improperly brought the material home. The information involved mainly those veterans who served and have been discharged since 1975. Data of veterans discharged before 1975 who submitted claims to the agency may have [...]

Morgan Stanley has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by claiming the US bank failed to provide “tens of thousands” of e-mails relevant to an investigation. The SEC demanded access to e-mails sent and received by Morgan Stanley employees during a wider investigation into the independence of Wall Street stock [...]

A former US government computer security specialist has been sentenced to jail for five months, a fine of $40,000 and a three year supervision order for hacking. Kenneth Kwak admitted unauthorized access to his former boss’s computer at the Department of Education. Kwak admitted placing software on his boss’s computer that allowed him to snoop [...]

A former employee of Old Mutual Financial Network in Baltimore has pleaded guilty to charges that she defrauded Old Mutual and banks of more than $850,000. Phillips admitted that she obtained more than $700,000 by falsely representing to Wachovia Bank that she had authority to transfer money from Old Mutual bank accounts into accounts that [...]

According to news reports, Henry and Roma Gerbus took their computer to Best Buy in Springfield Township to have its hard drive replaced. Henry Gerbus stated that Best Buy assured him the computer’s old hard drive would be destroyed. A few months later Gerbus got a phone call from Ed, a man living in Chicago [...]

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that a Denver District Court judge correctly punished the Union Pacific Railroad for destroying evidence in the case involving injured conductor Frank Aloi, and that Aloi is still entitled to a $6 million damage award against the railroad company. At issue were destroyed maintenance records and the instructions of [...]

Accounts for 40 million consumers accounts have been made vulnerable to hackers as a result of a data breach, and as a result, tighter security measures have been sought to protect millions of credit and debit card users. CardSystems Solutions Inc. has settled charges that the company broke the law by failing to ensure adequate [...]

Citigroup is reissuing MasterCard credit and debit cards used in Britain, Russia and Canada, after revealing that they may have become compromised following an unspecified breach of its network. The financial giant said that the accounts may have been compromised in “previous retailer breaches in the US,” and that the company was aware of fraudulent [...]

A pair of private investigators working for attorneys representing Biovail Corp. CEO Eugene Melnyk were caught removing trash from a Wall Street analyst’s residence and were also caught shadowing the wife of another analyst. The investigators were videotaped taking trash from the home of Banc of America Securities analyst Jerry Treppel. The BofA analyst is [...]

For 15 months North Regent RX has been receiving faxes containing confidential information belonging to hundreds of patients with Prudential Financial Inc.’s insurance group. The two companies have almost identical toll free fax numbers, differing only by one digit. North Regent’s Lockport office has mistakenly received thousands of documents sent to the wrong fax number [...]

A computer tape from Connecticut-based bank, People’s Bank, containing personal data on 90,000 customers was lost in transit. The tape was bound for the Trans Union credit bureau in Woodlyn, PA via UPS. The Bank is notifying all affected customers and UPS is investigating the incident but would not disclose when the package was lost. [...]

Providence Home Services is notifying 365,000 hospice and home health patients about the theft of computer backup data disks and tapes that included personal information and confidential medical records. The tapes and disks were taken home by an employee as part of a back-up protocol that sent them offsite to protect against loss from fires [...]

Bank of America and Washington Mutual have notified affected customers that they are canceling debit cards because of a security breach at a third party location. According to anonymous sources, the case involves Wal-Mart and OfficeMax. Wal-Mart said in a press release that the investigation began when credit card issuers reported that some cardholders were [...]

An apparent attempt to recycle discarded internal reports resulted in the compromise of credit card and bank number information belonging to over 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette. The snafu occurred when discarded reports with account information of credit card subscribers were recycled as paper to print routing slips. More [...]

A US Federal Court threw out a lawsuit that accused student-loan provider Brazos Higher Education Service of negligence in failing to encrypt a customer database that was subsequently stolen. The case arose as a result of the burglary of a laptop containing personal information of Brazos customers. The computer was stolen from the home of [...]