The following is cross-posted from DataBreaches.net, where you can find extensive coverage of a 2013 breach at Maricopa County Community Colleges District (MCCCD) that affected almost 2.5 million. Earlier this year, I reached out to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), to encourage them to join DataBreaches.net in filing a complaint with the FTC concerning the massive…
Category: Breaches
Tesco’s Homeplus Investigated By South Korea Over Privacy Breach and Competition Rigging
Lianna Brinded reports: Tesco-owned Asian supermarket Homeplus is under investigation in South Korea after prosecutors accused the group’s managers for selling customers’ private information to insurance companies. South Korean authorities are also probing Homeplus for rigging a customer competition following allegations that employees rigged the results so friends would snap up the main prize of…
Do you really need to include that personal information?
Robert Gregory of Maddocks writes about an AU case: A complainant has been awarded $7500 by the Federal Privacy Commissioner as a result of highly private personal information about him being included in an Information Pack for School Council members. The case sends a clear message to schools that they should carefully consider whether to…
Man gets 5 years in prison for recording 25 women at Cobb salons
Alexis Stevens reports: A registered sex offender will return to prison for secretly videotaping women in the restrooms at two Cobb County salons, the District Attorney said Monday. Mark Allan Storch, 56, of Atlanta, must spend five years of his 20-year sentence in prison, Superior Court Judge Gregory Poole ruled Monday morning. When Storch is released from prison,…