In 2014, Visionworks, an eye care retailer, misplaced two computer servers that potentially had sensitive personal information. Bloomberg reports that they have now settled with the Maryland Attorney General over these poor practices: While upgrading to fully encrypted servers at its stores in Annapolis, Md.,…
Data breaches have moved from the financial industry, to the healthcare industry, and in a matter of months hackers seem focused on the travel industry now. United Airlines announced a data breach that was linked by some to the same group of Chinese hackers that…
Chinese hackers have been implicated again in another cyber attack on US Soil, this time with the United Airlines hack. The hackers who stole data on tens of millions of U.S. insurance holders and government employees in recent months breached another big target at around…
It has been well-known now that in April 2015, the Office of Personnel Management suffered a data breach of millions of government employees’ and contractors’ personal information. Since that time, the Director of OPM has stepped down, and the government has begun to send notices…
Imagine driving down the highway and all of a sudden your radio – magically! – starts changing its own channel. Then, your wipers go. You chuckle. However, then your GPS system tells you that you are in a far away land from your true location,…
In 2010, the Federal Trade Commission settled its complaint with LifeLock over alleged deceptive claims and practices made with regards to LifeLock’s Identity Theft Protection and Data Security Claims. Now, the FTC is charging that LifeLock failed to live up to the terms of the agreement.…