Would you like your bank account cleaned out with your car?
If you used a payment card between February 6 and February 28 at any Acme Car Wash, Clearwater Express Car Wash, Wildwater Express Carwash, or Auto Pride Car Wash location, check your debit card...
View ArticleRI: Third Personal Data Breach Hits UHIP Customers
Is it time to just call time of death on UHIP or reconsider the contract with the tech vendor? Or is this just to be expected in any rollout like this? Kristin Gourlay reports: State officials say...
View ArticleJP: GMO Payment Gateway submits report with Japan’s Ministry of Economy,...
Maria Nikolova reports: More than a month has passed since Japanese provider of payment processing services GMO Payment Gateway Inc confirmed that personal data leakage that had affected the websites...
View ArticlePAUSD student data exposed in Schoolzilla data breach
So we’re beginning to learn a bit more about the Schoolzilla data breach that MacKeeper Security Research Center’s Chris Vickery reported yesterday. Chris had reported that 1.3 million students had...
View ArticleGreenway Health Reports Ransomware Attack
From Greenway Health: TAMPA, April 24–An apparent criminal cyber attack that has affected a limited portion of its customers was reported today by Greenway Health to its affected customers, the company...
View ArticleTheDarkOverlord leaks upcoming episode of Orange is the New Black after...
After a two-month hiatus, and with pixels to spare, TheDarkOverlord let it be known today that they are still hacking and attempting to extort their victims: And so let it be read that the loathsome...
View ArticlePentucket Medical notifies employees and patients of data security incident
Speaking of confusing incident reports, Pentucket Medical in Massachusetts reported a somewhat confusing incident to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. It seems that on January 18, four boxes...
View ArticleHackers Find Celebrities’ Weak Links in Their Vendor Chains
Nicole Perlroth reports on how hackers go after vendors and contractors to gain access to their real targets. It’s something TheDarkOverlord emphasized repeatedly in discussing their attacks with me...
View ArticleGuardian Soulmates website suffers data breach
Zack Marzouk reports: Those looking for love on Guardian Soulmates have instead found explicit emails in their inboxes following a data breach. Guardian News & Media, parent company of the dating...
View ArticleUPDATE: iHealth Innovations responds to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital data security...
Yesterday, DataBreaches.net reported on a misconfigured rsync backup that had been detected by Kromtech Security. The security firm had contacted DataBreaches.net for notification assistance on May 3...
View ArticleFormer Government Contractor Pleads Guilty To ID Theft Scheme
A former government contractor pleaded guilty Friday to stealing the identities of numerous co-workers to make purchases at online retailers such as Amazon, Express, and Victoria’s Secret. According to...
View Article“Shoot the messenger:” NYC hospital and vendor threaten DataBreaches.net for...
Vendor’s mistake potentially exposed “millions” of Bronx-Lebanon Hospital patients’ information; Hospital and vendor try to claim that iHealth Solutions was “hacked” by security researchers who...
View ArticleTN: Williamson County Schools warns parents of security breach in...
A follow-up on a breach previously noted on this site. I imagine we’ll see a number of these from school districts in the weeks and months to come. Williamson County Schools sent a message to parents...
View ArticleCalling time of death on HHS’s “breach tool”
I was excited back in 2010 when HHS started posting breaches on what some would call the “wall of shame.” I knew that we’d only learn about breaches involving HIPAA-covered entities, but at least we...
View ArticleHealth, personal records of 2,500 Arizona families with newborns lost
Ken Alltucker reports: State health officials have warned 2,500 individuals and families with newborns that a box containing sensitive health, financial and personal information has been lost in the...
View ArticleFast Health in Tehachapi suffers security breach
ABC23 reports: Fast Health in Tehachapi is reporting a security breach that could affect over 700 of their patients. The business says a third-party altered a code on their server, stealing the credit...
View ArticleMallard Creek High School students’ records found blowing across streets
WSOC-TV reports that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ officials were notified after residents found documents with Mallard Creek High School students’ names, addresses and other personal information...
View ArticleHas Booz Allen Hamilton had yet another serious and embarrassing data leak?
So while I was busy trying to get from there to here, UpGuard’s new site, Cyber Resilience, released its first blockbuster report: In what constitutes the latest in a series of blows to the US...
View ArticleProtecting Sensitive Hospital Data Is Becoming Harder For Some Entrepreneurs
Melissa Thompson reports: The Wall Street Journal recently ran a disturbing article about hospital data security — or the lack thereof. It seems that Tanium, a new cybersecurity company, is alleged to...
View ArticleOops. Tata dev accidentally leaked banks’ code on public GitHub repo
Iain Thomson reports: Staff at Indian outsourcing biz Tata Consultancy Service uploaded a huge trove of financial institutions’ source code and internal documents to a public GitHub repository, an IT...
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