Fidelity National Information Services suffers a consumer identity breach
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Blog: From its Certegy Check Services subsidiary, 2.3 million Fidelity National Information Services consumer financial records are sold to a data broker.
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FTC is mailing forms to consumers who believe they were victims of identity theft.
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(Source: Tizor)  With the severity of recent data breaches affecting brand name merchants, anxiety in the security and compliance community has reached a new high. Questions are being raised about what it means to be PCI compliant, particularly in the context of protecting sensitive data from data breaches.
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Flood of data interrupts Authorize.net's credit card processing for Internet merchants, leaving the company scrambling.
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Fidelity Investments chairman and chief executive Edward C. "Ned" Johnson III is known for a rare attention to detail within his sprawling family enterprise. Example: Displeased with the style of sinks at a fitness center in the Fidelity-owned Seaport Hotel , he ordered them torn out and replaced. A faulty alarm at the South Boston hotel also prompted action: He ...
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QUINCY, Mass. - John Russo has been a victim of identity theft. So when he was asked to fork over a photo ID just to be seated at an IHOP pancake restaurant, he flipped.
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(InfoWorld) - Data broker ChoicePoint Inc. will pay US$500,000 and has agreed to change the way it screens new customers under a multistate settlement for aÂ 2004 data breach. The settlement, announced Thursday, covers complaints from 43 states and the District of Columbia following the 2004 data breach affecting 163,000 U.S. residents. The company announced in early 2005 that identity thieves had set up fake businesses as a way to buy personal information from ChoicePoint. States will likely use the $500,000 for attorney's fees and court costs, Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna said in a news release. Consumers affected by the ChoicePoint breach can seek redress under a separate settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, announced in January 2006. In the settlement with the FTC, ChoicePoint agreed to pay a $10 million fine and another $5 million for consumer redress. Consumers affected by the breach have until June 22 to file claims with the FTC. The FTC has identified about 1,400 consumers who had out-of-pocket expenses due to the breach. The settlement with the states represents the first time a data broker has agreed to safeguard publicly available information in the same way that financial information is protected by law, McKenna said. "As part of the settlement, ChoicePoint will make significant changes to the way the company screens new customers," McKenna said in a statement. "New credentialing methods ... will help ensure that sensitive data is better protected and shared with only legitimate businesses, not identity thieves." ChoicePoint has made significant improvements in its privacy protection efforts, the company said in a statement. "In the eyes of many of our harshest critics ... ChoicePoint has become a 'model' of privacy protection," Matt Furman, ChoicePoint vice president for corporate communications, said in a statement. The company expects that the changes it is making as part of its agreement with the states "will ultimately be where the entire industry finds itself" as far as protecting data, he said. The settlement also calls on ChoicePoint to work with state attorneys general to fund consumer education programs on identity theft, the company said. The Washington Attorney General's Office sent the settlement agreement to Thurston County Superior Court Thursday. A judge must approve the agreement before it becomes final. ChoicePoint collects and sells personal information about consumers, including names, Social Security numbers, and birth dates, employment information and credit histories. The company provides credential verification services to more than 50,000 businesses, government agencies and nonprofit organizations.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.K.'s financial services regulator has levied a heavy fine against the nation's largest building society over a stolen laptop containing confidential customer information. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) fined Nationwide Building Society Â£980,000 ($1.9 million) for "failing to have effective systems and controls to manage its information security risks," the regulator said in a statement. Nationwide, which has about 11 million customers, did not realize the laptop contained customer information and waited three weeks before starting an investigation, the FSA said. The laptop was stolen from an employee's home during a burglary in August 2006, Nationwide said in a statement. The building society believes the thief was after the laptop itself rather than the information on its hard drive. The data was for marketing purposes and did not contain any PIN numbers, passwords, or account balance information, Nationwide said. Nationwide informed its customers of the problem and no losses were reported, it said. It also commissioned a review of its information security, the FSA said. (A building society is a type of cooperative financial institution, similar to a credit union in the U.S.)
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Bureau was target of an attempt to gain access to employees' user account information for its computer network.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun mailing claim forms to more than 1,400 identity theft victims who spent money to clear up identity-theft problems due to a security breach at data broker ChoicePoint announced in early 2005.
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Identity thieves may have obtained information on thousands of Wells Fargo mortgage and student loan customers.
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The internal menace Security at the British Home Office's Identity and Passport Service (IPS) database has been compromised four times, with individuals' data used inappropriately by Home Office employees and contractors. A fifth breach has hit a Prison Service database.â¦
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TD Ameritrade warned customers Friday that its client database suffered a security breach, potentially putting social security numbers and trading information at risk.
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Thousands of credit card numbers and other personal data may have been compromised.
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Washington State has reached an agreement with the vendor of the Privasafe and SurfSafe service and software. The firm, Consumer Digital Services, is accused of deceptive marketing techniques and of misusing customers' personal information.
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A company that collects consumer data warned thousands of Californians that hackers penetrated the company's computer network and may have stolen credit reports, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information.
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Responding to a scourge of online fraud and identity theft that threatens to undermine public confidence in Internet commerce, major companies are rolling out new services to encourage the adoption of better technology to identify customers, business partners, and employees online.