Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

On the surface, this sounds like good news. Basically, it’s a bill that would create a national standard for protection of data, and would require notification of breaches of sensitive data. Data breaches, data sharing, and data theft has become FAR too common, and businesses and the government have treated it very lightly. So, I’m [...]

I don’t have anything to add. I’ll only get angrier than I am. This story just speaks for itself. Health Net says 1.5M medical records lost in data breach November 19, 2009 (Computerworld) A hard drive with seven years’ worth of personal financial and medical information on about 1.5 million customers of Health Net of [...]

WHAT a disgusting disgrace! Bank Sends Sensitive E-mail to Wrong Gmail Address, Sues Google. A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data. According to a court document in the case, in August [...]