Just like HIPPA is not HIPAA.  Privacy is a very different thing than security.  I am exploring a career move and I have been searching out and assessing possible privacy positions with many different types …

Read Six Messy Database Breaches So Far In 2010.

The Massachusetts secretary of state’s office, which is charged with enforcing financial rules for investment companies, accidentally released confidential personal information earlier this year on 139,000 investment advisers registered with the state.
The data, including the …

TJX announced yesterday that it had settled the lawsuit on Friday. A lawyer for the Louisiana police retirement fund, which filed its lawsuit in Delaware, where Framingham-based TJX is incorporated, did not return calls seeking …

Two University of Maine servers have been compromised, potentially exposing personal information related to some 4,585 individuals who accessed UMaine Counseling Center services between Aug. 8, 2002 and June 21, 2010.
The UMaine police department is …

Sometime between March 16 and 24, 2010, a weekly shipment of seven duplicate compact disks (CDs) in the custody of FedEx, were lost while being transported to Lincoln Hospital. These CDs were created by Siemens …

For Release: Date 6/28/2010
FTC Obtains Court Order Halting International Scheme Responsible For More Than $10 Million In Unauthorized Charges On Consumers’ Credit and Debit Cards
Operation Used Expansive Network of “Money Mules”
At the request of the …

Computer hackers targeting travelers at luxury hotels across the country made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars during the past three months by breaking into the computer system of a national hotel chain and …

More than 200,000 Anthem Blue Cross customers this week received letters informing them that their personal information might have been accessed during a security breach of the companys website.
Only customers who had pending insurance applications …

Twitter Settles Charges that it Failed to Protect Consumers Personal Information; Company Will Establish Independently Audited Information Security Program
Social networking service Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and …