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This follows he recent wave of major retailers, which, along with Walgreens, have been voicing their concerns about retail theft. Continue reading ‘We Cried Too Much’: Walgreens CFO Says Retail Theft Maybe Isn’t the Crisis It Portrayed
Groups of unidentified thieves broke into multiple Walgreens stores in late May and early June and stole prescription information and other data on some 70,000 customers, a spokesman for the pharmacy chain said Monday. The assailants forced their way behind pharmacy counters and stole drug prescriptions, and also took a “very limited number of hard drives attached to stolen cash registers,” according to a letter Walgreens sent affected customers. Customers’ health insurance and vaccination information may have been swept up in the breach, Walgreens said, but credit card data and Social Security numbers were not affected. “Like many retailers, pharmacies and local businesses across the country, Walgreens recently had a number of its stores sustain varying degrees of damage as a result of vandalism and theft,” Walgreens spokesman Jim Cohn said. “Protecting our customers’ personal information is a top priority and something we take very seriously. We’ve worked with local law enforcement, and are continuing to take […]
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Pharmacy chain Walgreens is alerting customers that their prescription data and other information may have been exposed thanks to a flaw in the company’s messaging app. An “error” in the messaging feature of the Walgreens app that customers use to track prescriptions left some of their personal information exposed to other customers between Jan. 9 and Jan. 15, according to Rina Shah, vice president of pharmacy operations. A “small percentage” of customers were affected, she said. Exposed data included customers’ names, prescription numbers, drug names and, in some cases, shipping addresses. It did not include financial data, Shah said in a letter posted last week to the California attorney general’s website. California law requires companies to report data breaches affecting state residents. It was unclear precisely how many people were affected by the breach. A Walgreens spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company advised customers to monitor their prescriptions […]
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A security error in the Walgreens mobile app may have leaked customers’ full names, prescriptions and shipping addresses. Continue reading Walgreens Mobile App Leaks Prescription Data
Amazon has gone live with Amazon Care, a new pilot healthcare service offering that is initially available to its employees in and around the Seattle area. The Amazon Care offering includes both virtual and in-person care, with telemedicine via app, chat and remote video, as well as follow-up visits and prescription drug delivery in person […] Continue reading Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual and in-person healthcare offering for employees
“Session replay scripts” can be used to log (and then playback) everything you typed or clicked on a website. Continue reading Over 400 of the World’s Most Popular Websites Record Your Every Keystroke, Princeton Researchers Find