Information security analytics

A former Westmoreland County woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal wire fraud and identity theft laws, the website triblive.com writes. Jennifer Lynne Clark, also known as Jennifer Gill, 40, formerly of Mt. Pleasant, is accused of two counts of wire fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft.

Officials at the Department of Human Services said Monday that a small number of clients were affected this year by a computer error that labeled envelopes with incorrect addresses, the website newsok.com reports.

In Q3 2018, InfoWatch Analytical Center registered almost 20% more confidential data leaks year over year. This is a digest of top five incidents revealed during the period from July to September.

Bupa has been fined £175,000 by the ICO after one of its employees tried to sell the records of 547,000 Bupa Global customers on the dark web early last year, The IT PRO writes.

According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Voya Financial Advisors will pay $1 million to settle claims it violated two rules designed to protect confidential customer information and protect customers from the risk of identity theft, the website Pensions&Investments reports.

Unauthorized access to bank card details may cause a serious damage to its holder, who may end up with all the money being withdrawn by criminals. This is a digest of payment data leaks prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

Uber Technologies Inc. will pay $148 million to settle claims related to a large-scale data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 25 million of its U.S. users The Bloomberg reports.

Know-how, trade secrets, and personal data of employees and customers are the most common data types leaked from manufacturers by hackers and malicious or negligent insiders. This is a digest of recent confidential information leaks from car manufacturing companies, prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

In today’s digital era, businesses share more and more corporate information with their partners and therefore should pick service providers with great care and subject to confidentiality agreements. This is a digest of data leaks by contractors, prepared by InfoWatch Analytical Center.

If you use a simple, easy-to-guess password such as "QWERTY" or "1234," you might pay for your mistake by having someone access your online accounts without permission - and you may also find yourself paying out for subsequent damages and lost funds. That is, if Vodafone reportedly has its way, the portal ZDNet writes.