PA: State Dept. of Corrections notifies employees, inmates of online security...
Fox43 reports: A “security incident” at a third-party vendor may have compromised the personal information of employees, inmates and others involved with the state Department of Corrections, the DOC...
View ArticleOR: Lane County Health and Human Services says more than 700 patients and...
Bryan Anderson reports: Lane County Health and Human Services announced the loss of 49 boxes containing patient and client information Tuesday night. The boxes contained 566 Community Health Centers of...
View ArticleClick2Gov Payment System Security Breach
A reader kindly alerted me to the fact that the city of Tyler had reported a breach. When I looked into it, I see that it’s yet one more report on Click2Gov by Superion. This has been a known problem...
View ArticleKarnataka’s famed land record database Bhoomi faces another security breach
Akshatha M reports: In a serious security breach of Karnataka’s famed land record database, 19 acres of government wasteland in Devanahalli were shifted to a private individual illegally last week. In...
View ArticleSchool Board Considers Hiring Consultant to Investigate Whether Edmodo Breach...
Bob Conrad reports: Student data used in the social networking educational platform Edmodo was stolen a year and a half ago. The Washoe County School District is now considering hiring a consultant to...
View ArticleBCBS of Rhode Island blames vendor for breach of member information
G. Wayne Miller reports: Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has disclosed a breach of personal health-care information affecting 1,567 people that the insurer blames on an unnamed vendor...
View ArticlePerth Mint data breach bigger than thought
Australian Associated Press reports: A recent data breach at Perth Mint saw hackers take the personal details of about 3200 customers, far more than initially suspected, but investors have been assured...
View ArticleClick2Gov Update: ICYMI Here’s The Latest
RBS is doing a great job of tracking the Click2Gov breaches. In their most recent update, they report: It’s been three months since our original post was published and as feared, breaches of the...
View ArticleFormer govt contractor sentenced in “logic bomb” national security case
There’s what appears to be the final chapter in a case that was first reported in April, 2016. A contractor, Mittesh Das, who was convicted in September, 2017 for sabotaging an army program, was...
View ArticleSt. Petersburg timeline on Click2Gov raises questions as to whether the...
I have commented on the Click2Gov breach a few times — mostly wondering aloud why so many customers do not seem to have been made aware that they needed to update immediately, etc. Both RBS and...
View ArticleCalifornia court allows lawsuit over breach of HIV patients’ information to...
There’s an update on a lawsuit previously noted on this site. John Riley reports: The Superior Court of California has rejected a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit on behalf of 93 HIV-positive...
View ArticleLake Worth Utilities customers may have had credit card information stolen
WPTV reports: Customers of the City of Lake Worth Utilities who utilized the online credit card payment option to pay their bill may have experienced a possible breach of their credit card information....
View ArticleMissouri Department of Health and Senior Services notifies 10,400 whose data...
JEFFERSON CITY, MO – On October 24, 2018, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (“Department”) mailed over 10,400 letters to individuals informing them that the Department recently...
View ArticleNJ Settles Charges Against Business Associate Responsible for Virtua Medical...
One question that occasionally pops up is how often businesses go out of business after or due to a data breach. My answer to that is “not often,” but we do it occasionally. In some cases, the breach...
View ArticleAL: Huntsville Hospital reports employee applicant breach at Jobscience
From Huntsville Hospital, this press release yesterday, seen at WAFF: “Regrettably, we’ve learned that Jobscience, Inc., the vendor which we’ve used for online employment application services since...
View ArticleJobscience breach impacted multiple health systems’ job applicants (UPDATED)
This week, Huntsville Hospital in Alabama disclosed a breach involving their vendor, Jobscience. The breach affected those applying for employment with the hospital. But Huntsville wasn’t the only...
View ArticleLPL Financial notifying advisors after Capital Forensics, Inc. was hacked
LPL Financial has sent a notification about a third-party hack that was shared with DataBreaches.net by a reader. The hack involving Capital Forensics, Inc. has reportedly affected a number of that...
View ArticleCity of Bakersfield announces data breach from hacked Click2Gov system
Another Click2Gov breach, this time affecting up to 24oo residents of the City of Bakersfield. The city’s statement, below, doesn’t indicate whether they were ever warned by CentralSquare Technologies,...
View ArticleDo you login to merchant sites using your FB or Google credentials? The Annex...
Hmm. This one could result in big numbers. A notification from Title Nine about Annex Cloud. Annex Cloud is a service provider that you may never have heard of but may have used many times. The...
View ArticleThis UK pub chain left 17,000 customer details exposed online
Nicole Kobie reports: The personal details of thousands of beer drinkers were left exposed thanks to a Wi-Fi provider proving leakier than a smashed pint glass. Brewhouse & Kitchen is a small chain...
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