Jan 25, 2010
Data Breaches: Good and Bad News While the incidence of data breaches in 2009 declined to 436 from the 717 incidents reported in 2008, the number of records affected increased from 86.3 million in 2008 to nearly 218.8 million records in 2009. According to a report from the Open Security Foundation , Glen Allen, Va., the [ click for more...... ]
Nov 19, 2009
Data handlers not prepared for breach: survey Thousands of "business associates" handle millions of healthcare records on behalf of "covered entities" as defined under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). According to a survey by HIMSS Analytics, a large percentage of these data handlers [ click for more...... ]
Nov 11, 2009
Maryland Bank Dumps Identities ABC2 News investigators recently discovered that an M&T Bank branch in Maryland improperly disposed of sensitive, personal information. These documents included social security numbers, driver's license numbers, bank accounts, and other sensitive information that should have been shredded--not [ click for more...... ]
Sep 03, 2009
HIPAA Breach Notice Rules to Take Effect The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued new regulations requiring health care providers, health plans and other entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to notify individuals when their protected health information (PHI) is [ click for more...... ]
Aug 08, 2009
Claim: Government Program 'Poisoned' Lawsuit claims government-owned program 'poisoned' participants   MARIANNA — Freda Cobb worked late at her job in food services at the Federal Correction Institute in Marianna. Often she would get home after her daughters already were asleep. She remembers waking up to find [ click for more...... ]
May 27, 2009
When You Don't Do It The Right Way Watchdog claims charity recycler dumped electronics The company that held a free recycling program collecting old computers and other electronics to benefit the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society in March is facing accusations that it exported the materials to Hong Kong and South Africa where [ click for more...... ]
May 21, 2009
Lockheed Martin Data Bought on eBay A study released on May 8th that was sponsored by BT (British Telecom) and conducted by the forensic computer science laboratories at Longwood University in the United States, University of Glamorgan in Wales, and Edith Cowan University in Australia has revealed that 34% of discarded hard drives [ click for more...... ]
Mar 24, 2009
19,000 credit card numbers made public "I've always believed that Google is your friend, and it is especially friendly when it's telling you that 19,000 credit card numbers are freely available on the internet. That's what happened to someone in Australia, who received a strange-looking Google Alert..." Read more about [ click for more...... ]
Feb 18, 2009
CVS agrees to $2.25 mil. for HIPAA violations On February 18, 2009 WTHR in Indianapolis reported that the “Prescription Privacy” investigation it launched in 2006 has resulted in a $2.25 million settlement agreement between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CVS. The HHS and Office of Civil Rights [ click for more...... ]
Feb 05, 2009
Data Breaches in US Increase The Identity Theft Resource Center, a San Diego-based non-profit group that monitors identity theft, reported 656 data breaches in 2008. This is an increase of 47 percent since the 2007 statistics reported 446 data breaches. The resource center also stated not all of the data breaches for [ click for more...... ]
Jan 07, 2009
Data Breaches Soar Data Breaches Soar   The Identity Theft Resource Center reports that data breaches jumped by 47 percent last year to 656 reported breaches, compared to the previous year. Broken out by sector, the ID Theft Center reports that the business sector saw the largest number of breaches, [ click for more...... ]
Jan 05, 2009
Trashed TVs and computers: A toxic mess Trashed TVs and computers: A toxic mess   SEATTLE — Hong Kong intercepted and returned 41 ship containers to U.S. ports this year because they carried tons of illegal electronics waste from the U.S., according to the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department. By turning the [ click for more...... ]
Dec 11, 2008
Data Leaks Due to Improper Destruction Data Leaks Due to Improper Destruction   Patient health records, social security numbers, bank account numbers and internal auditing procedures are examples of the kinds of information that is unknowingly leaking out of data centers. This trend is the result of companies improperly [ click for more...... ]
Nov 24, 2008
State HHS Records Discarded State HHS Records Discarded On November 21, 2008 KRGV TV in Weslaco, Texas reported that personal information including names, addresses and Social Security numbers were found in a dumpster located by the offices of Texas Department of Health and Human Services in Harlingen, Texas. The personal [ click for more...... ]
Nov 21, 2008
Sensitive Information in Municipal Dumpster Sensitive Information in Municipal Dumpster   On November 8, 2008 the St. Petersburg Times posted an article regarding improper disposals by county and state government in Pinellas and that these disposals may violate state and federal law. Pinellas clerk of the circuit court auditors [ click for more...... ]
Nov 20, 2008
Man Finds Hospital Records in Dumpster Man Finds Hospital Records in Dumpster On November 20, 2008 WNDU in South Bend, Indiana reported that an anonymous man stated he had found patient records belonging to St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in a dumpster near the hospital. The anonymous man provided copies of the documents to WNDU. [ click for more...... ]
Nov 11, 2008
Groups to Launch E-waste Certification Program Groups to Launch E-waste Certification Program Two environmental groups, the Basel Action Network and the Electronics TakeBack Coalition, will launch an electronic-waste accreditation and certification program that will prohibit shipping toxic e-waste overseas, the groups said Monday. The [ click for more...... ]
Nov 04, 2008
EPA Creates E-Waste Guidelines The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a new guide for electronics recycling operators. "Responsible Recycling (R2) Practices for Use in Accredited Certification Programs for Electronics Recyclers" promotes better environmental, worker safety, and public health practices [ click for more...... ]
Oct 07, 2008
Mobile Phones Can't be Cleaned of Data Mobile phones are filled with all different kinds of personal information such as phone numbers, e-mails, data transfers, etc.  Each year millions of mobile phones are lost or discarded with this sensitive information. This information can eventually be extracted by someone, making cell [ click for more...... ]
Oct 06, 2008
Report: Secure Destruction MSNBC reported on October 6, 2008 that there are several measures that should be put into place in order to maintain the protection of personal information. The article provides examples of how easy it is to steal information by dumpster diving and what precautions businesses need to take in order [ click for more...... ]
Sep 17, 2008
EPA Lets Electronic Waste Flow Freely, GAO Report Says EPA Lets Electronic Waste Flow Freely, GAO Report Says The Government Accountability Office concluded in a report released on September 17th 2008 that the Environmental Protection Agency has done little to control the export of electronic waste to developing countries. These discarded [ click for more...... ]
Aug 26, 2008
Data Breaches Have Surpassed Level for All of '07, Report Finds Data Breaches Have Surpassed Level for All of '07, Report Finds On August 26, 2008, the Washington Post revealed that according to a report by Identity Theft Resource Center of San Diego, more data breaches have been reported this year than in all of 2007. The report sites over 22 million data [ click for more...... ]
Aug 15, 2008
Personal Information Found in Atlanta Dumpster Personal Information Found in Atlanta Dumpster According to a report from Fox News in Atlanta, GA, thousands of documents containing Social Security numbers and other personal information were thrown out in a dumpster. These documents loaded with sensitive information were left unprotected. [ click for more...... ]
Jul 17, 2008
Latest Texas Disposal Settlement Nearly $1 Million According to a report by Logan Carver appearing on the website of the Avalanche Journal today (July 17th), a national medical company will pay the state of Texas $990,000 for improperly disposing of personal information - virtually all of which will go into a fund created to further enforce the [ click for more...... ]
Jul 07, 2008
Kansas Internal Investigation Finds Shortcoming in State's Electronic Information Disposal     Click here to leave PC Recycler's website and read the entire article   Kansas Internal Investigation Finds Shortcoming in State's Electronic Information Disposal An article by James Carlson appearing in Topeka's The Capital-Journal reports that the Kansas [ click for more...... ]
Feb 11, 2008
Tax Office Computer Servers Found by Trash Tax Office Computer Servers Found by Trash A maintenance man found two computer servers – labeled “PROPERTY OF D.C. OFFICE OF TAX AND REVENUE” – on the morning of February 6, 2008. The servers were discovered next to a trash compactor in Columbia Heights. Computer [ click for more...... ]
Jan 17, 2008
High Tech Trash The National Geographic Magazine (January 2008) decided to take on the most buzzed about topic involving technology and the environment: electronic waste. In their article, High Tech Trash, they take an in-depth look at the world’s electronic waste – exactly where it is going and what [ click for more...... ]
Dec 19, 2007
Federal Trade Commission Issues Fine on Improper Disposal Federal Trade Commission Issues Fine on Improper Disposal           On December 18, 2007, the US Federal Trade Commission fined an Illinois-based mortgage company for leaving documents with consumers’ sensitive personal and financial [ click for more...... ]
Nov 27, 2007
Electronic Waste Nightmares Why recycle your old computers, monitors, televisions, and cell phones? The long list of reasons for recycling includes helping the earth or discarding of an old item when you get a new one. It seems like the most important reason for recycling is not contributing to the two million tons of old [ click for more...... ]
Nov 07, 2007
Wal-mart Drops New Prices on Laptops On Friday November 2 nd Wal-Mart  started the holiday shopping early by selling at brand new laptop for $350.  The laptop is fully loaded new with Windows Vista.  The extreme price drop reflects the continuous erosion in the PC and Laptop market.  It also sets the stage for a [ click for more...... ]
Oct 05, 2007
MSNBC Video: "The Green Way to Throw Out Tech Toys" MSNBC Video: "The Green Way to Throw Out Tech Toys"   MSNBC’s Nightly News recently reported a story on the importance of electronics recycling. There is an ever-increasing interest in what happens to computers and other electronics when they have reached the end of [ click for more...... ]
Aug 01, 2007
Offices Not Taking Advantage of Cartridge Recycling Programs, Study Finds Offices Not Taking Advantage of Cartridge Recycling Programs, Study Finds   Less than half of all printer cartridges are recycled or reused even once by offices in the UK and US, according to new research by InfoTrends. At least half of all printer cartridges end up in the landfill, [ click for more...... ]
Jul 19, 2007
Why are electronic companies going GREEN? Why are electronic companies going GREEN?           The electronics industry is being swept by new green initiatives. Many major companies including Motorola, Apple, Dell, and Panasonic are mapping out their new plans for recycling programs. These [ click for more...... ]
Jun 29, 2007
EIA Urges a Federal Electronics Recycling Law EIA Urges a Federal Electronics Recycling Law   The Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) is fervently promoting a national electronics recycling plan. This plan would prompt Congress to create a uniform federal law for all 50 states. EIA Interim President and CEO Matt Flanigan [ click for more...... ]
Jun 01, 2007
The "Monitor Queen" The "Monitor Queen"   Mary Tiong has been dubbed the “Monitor Queen”. Starting in her native Malaysia and taking her business to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tiong took discarded monitors and refurbished them to be used again for a helpful means. She has since [ click for more...... ]
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