Amidst last week’s reports of a hack affecting 2.9 million customers, Adobe is resetting relevant customer passwords and “notifying customers whose credit or debit card information may have been compromised.” Meanwhile, in the wake of privacy concerns about the reuse of inactive Yahoo e-mail addresses, PCWorld reports on Microsoft’s recycling of old addresses. And from medical data to personal information, breaches are being reported across the globe. In the UK, human error resulted in the exposure of hundreds of personal e-mail addresses, while the Information Commissioner's Office has revealed that despite prior warnings, sensitive personal data was “incorrectly handled” by Luton Borough Council staff. In Ireland, The Journal reports on 11 patient data breaches at hospitals in a six-month period. And in the U.S., North Carolina-based CaroMont Health exposed about 1,300 patients’ data in an unsecure e-mail, and Natural Provisions, a Vermont grocery store chain, has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a violation of state data breach laws, Mondaq reports.
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