Bloomberg New York state is opening an investigation into a data breach at Capital One Financial Corp that involves the personal information of 100 million consumers. The breach allowed for illegal access to names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and other highly sensitive personal information, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.

Bloomberg Surescripts, a company that enables electronic prescribing of drugs, terminated its contract with a vendor that it says improperly requested access to patients’ medication histories to give to Amazon.com’s PillPack subsidiary. Surescripts, which is partially owned by two of the largest pharmacy-benefit managers, said in a statement it has alerted the FBI and stopped its vendor, ReMy Health, from ...

The European Commission is largely hap-py with the first year of its sweeping digital privacy rules. Evidence moun-ts, however, that the General Data Protection Directive, or GDPR, as applied today hur-ts smaller firms and has no effect on tech giants, which are the least interested in preserving user privacy. The directive went into effect in May 2018, demanding companies provide ...