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California's extension of its data breach notification law to cover health care records promises to have significant impact on how medical organisations deal with patient information. The State Senate in California has passed measures that require more extensive notification to consumers of data breaches, establish a central reporting center for breaches, and permit local prosecution of identity theft in the nation's most populous state. The introduction of mandatory data breach disclosure laws in Australia has been set in motion. When facing up to a data breach, first contain it then evaluate the associated risk, says the Office of the Privacy Commissioner which released a new guide on handling breaches, today. The final report outlining the amendments to Australia’s Privacy Act will be released on August 11, possbily ending almost two years of speculation surrounding the inclusion of Australia’s inaugural mandatory data breach disclosure laws. Information security experts have given their overall thumbs-up to the ALRC’s mandatory data breach disclosure recommendations, but admit the course of action needs fine-tuning.
At the rate data breaches occur, it might be easier for everyone to just post their private information straight to the web. A socially-engineered attack could be to blame for a security breach at MTV Networks that has compromised the personal information of some 5,000 employees, security experts said Monday. The massive data breach at UK's HMRC, in which the records of 25 million people were lost, could have been avoided for £15,000 (A$30,000). Failing to protect corporate data opens the corporate purse with no guarantee that it will ever be closed again. The Black hat security conference held in Las Vegas last week experienced a major problem – in the shape of three French journalists. A data breach notification guideline to assist businesses and government agencies in the case of a significant data breach is currently in development, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has announced. The personal information of thousands of criminals in England and Wales has been lost on a USB drive. People are annoyed over the loss or theft of their personal information, a new survey from the Ponemon Institute reveals. The NHS has had to admit to losing a laptop containing thousands of patient details. A government laptop used by Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez may have been breached during a visit to Bejing last December. The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced a settlement with TJX over the discount retailer's massive breach of customer credit card records. TJX on Wednesday reported a 47 percent spike in quarterly profits, aided by a reduction in the reserve that was created to pay for costs associated with last year's reported data breach. A hard drive containing the personal information of three million driver's license applicants in Britain has gone missing from a facility in Iowa, British officials said Monday. Hannaford Bros. plans to implement millions of dollars of new technology that will effectively overhaul its IT security infrastructure and allow the recently breached supermarket chain to exceed data security requirements, the company and industry experts said.