The first rule when making statements
like this is: Don't be wrong. A banking relationship is built on
trust. Lie to your customers, even unintentionally and you face
doom. (If your systems are secure how about your vendors and
consultants?)
Saudi
denies bank info breach by Israeli hackers (updated)
January 10, 2012 by admin
Tarek El-Tablawy reports:
A top Saudi
banking official on Tuesday denied an Israeli media report that
hackers from Israel obtained credit card and bank account details of
thousands of Saudi citizens, retaliating for an attack on Israeli
accounts.
Talaat Hafez,
secretary-general of the media office in the kingdom’s banking
authority, denied a report by the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot that
Israeli hackers were threatening to release the financial information
they obtained if hackers continue to publish Israeli credit details
on line.
Hafez was quoted
by the Saudi online newspaper Sabq.org as saying that Saudi bank
customers’ financial information was safe and there was “no need
for customers to be concerned” because Saudi banks’ information
networks were very secure.
Read more on the San
Francisco Examiner.
Didn’t the Israeli hackers say they
accessed credit card numbers of shoppers? I saw no claim that they
hacked any banks. The banks are denying that they were hacked, but
that wasn’t the claim as far as I know. Do the banks in Saudi
Arabia control the merchants’ networks’ security? Very confusing
refutation….
Update: I just posts
on Pastebin with what appear to be data dumps with 217 names, e-mail
addresses, full credit card numbers, and expiry dates from Saudi
citizens. All of the expiration dates are in the format mm/dd and
are labeled with “expired,” so these may be old data (although a
new hack), although I suspect the field should just read “expires”
or “expiration date.” The dump was made by someone calling
himself “0xOmer,” in response to the hack of Israeli sites by
0xOmar.
A classic “he said, she said” but
with one side having the medical records. What did the patient have
to disclose? The bill? How can you refute claims without disclosing
details?
By Dissent,
January 10, 2012
Karen M. Cheung has more on the Prime
Healthcare case,
reporting
that the FBI has interviewed the patient who gave her records to
California Watch.
While much of the report concerns the
original focus of possible fraudulent billing of Medicare, some of
the story concerns the privacy aspects.
Reading it, you can understand why
Prime Healthcare wanted the paper to see the patient’s records, as
there is material in there that reportedly contradicts or at least
calls into question California Watch’s original reporting on the
case. But even so, that doesn’t give them the right to disclose
the patient’s records without consent.
For a more neutral perspective on the
Medicare billing aspects than California Watch seems to have
provided, see the Record Searchlight’s “Note
from the Editor” today.
I have cousins who deserve their own
zip code, but in this case the court has read up on how zip codes can
be used to identify individuals...
Mass
Ct: ZIP Code is Personal Identification Information Under Credit Card
Statute But Plaintiff Must Still Allege Harm — Tyler v. Michaels
Stores
January 10, 2012 by Dissent
Venkat Balasubramani writes:
Last year, the
California Supreme Court held that a ZIP Code is personal
identification information for purposes of a statute which restricted
the type of information a retailer could collect: “California
Supreme Court Rules That a ZIP Code is Personal Identification
Information — Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma.” A federal court in
Massachusetts recently construed a similar Massachusetts statute to
reach the same conclusion, albeit for different reasons. But having
found that the retailer in this case technically violated the
statute, the court dismisses
the case on the basis that the plaintiff failed to allege a
cognizable injury.
Read more on Technology
& Marketing Law Blog.
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