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NJ Bill Requires Data Destruction
New Jersey Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein has introduced a bill that would require companies to erase the personal data stored on hard drives in copy machines before they are sold. Failure to do so would result in a $10,000 fine for the first offense and $20,000 for each subsequent offense.
Most people are not aware that a copy machine keeps a copy of documents on an internal hard drive. In the case of a medical office or financial institution this data can be used for identity theft by the purchaser. |
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Milwaukee Temp Charged with Identity Theft
Starlita L. Sims and Christopher Lee Jackson of Milwaukee have been charged with stealing identities while Sims was working as a temp at the county human resources department. It appears that she took the personal information of employees and he set up the fraudulent accounts.
Organizations should take extra care with what employees have access to sensitive information. A temporary worker should never have that kind of access.
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Data Breach Leads to Demotion
Bonnie Yankaskas, a UNC cancer researcher is fighting a demotion she received after a security breach occurred in a medical study she directed. Yankaskas was demoted from full professor to associate professor with an associated pay cut from $178,000 to $93,000. The demotion was after one of two servers was hacked into in 2007. The hackers stole the data of more than 100,000. If the demotion is upheld it is a tremendous personal penalty for not having the proper safeguards in place. I am sure Yankaskas doesn't have the personal knowledge on what should have been done but she should have brought in the proper expertise. |
