How a Russian firm helped catch an alleged NSA data thief
Fascinating reporting by Kim Zetter on Politico. The 2016 arrest of a former National Security Agency contractor charged with a massive theft of classified data began with an unlikely source: a tip...
View ArticlePH: Locsin says ‘pissed’ contractor ‘took all’ passport data
Katrina Domingo reports: MANILA – Some Filipinos renewing their passports may have to present their birth certificates as an additional requirement after a passport production contractor the government...
View ArticlePH: Updated claims: No passport data loss, breach
Roy Mabasa and PNA report: Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Tuesday backpedaled from his earlier allegations that French contractor Oberthur reportedly ran away with the data of...
View ArticleVA: Notice of Click2Gov-related Data Breach of Hanover County Online Payment...
From the county’s notice, which you can find in its entirety here: Hanover County was recently notified about potential unauthorized charges on credit cards used by customers to pay their utility bills...
View ArticleOver 140 International Airlines Affected by Major Security Breach
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Potential attackers could view and change private information in flight bookings made by millions of customers of major international airlines because of a security issue in the...
View ArticleAetna settles with California in HIV-related privacy breach
AP reports: Aetna will pay $935,000 after one of its vendors sent letters to California patients that revealed via a window on the envelopes that the recipients were taking HIV-related medications,...
View ArticleStolen Credit Card Data from City Parking Systems Sold on the Dark Web
Bruno reports: The hackers of the city parking fine system in Saint John, Canada have been selling sensitive data on the dark web for over a year. The security breach in the system was not spotted for...
View ArticleNE: CHI Health officials say virus introduced to health system’s network by...
So let’s be honest: how often do you monitor your third-party vendors or business associates to ensure that the devices they may connect to your network are free from malware? Julie Anderson reports:...
View Article42,000 SLCC students’ tax documents were lost when unencrypted drive fell out...
Someone asked me today about the lack of W-2 phishing reports or W-2 incidents that we’ve seen so far this year. I responded that I hadn’t really had time to research W-2 attacks yet, but a reader,...
View ArticleMN: Data breach hits Dunn Brothers, Chino Latino, several metro businesses
KARE reports: Customers at Dunn Brothers, Chino Latino, Sebastian Joe’s and several other metro businesses may have had their credit cards compromised last month. North Country Business Products, Inc.,...
View ArticlePompano Beach warned nearly 4,000 residents of data breach involving Click2Gov
Wayne K. Roustan reports: A data breach at a company that handles the billing for municipal water service has Pompano Beach city officials working to minimize the potential damage. Hackers gained...
View ArticleMore than 5 months after ransomware incident, Wolverine Solutions Group still...
More than 5 months after a ransomware incident, Wolverine Solutions Group is still in the process of notifying more than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients. Should they even have to, or has the...
View ArticleAlleged Data Breach In IT Company Sparks Row Between Andhra, Telangana
Telangana | Indo-Asian News Service provides some more details on the TDP incident: An alleged data breach by a company which provides IT services to Andhra Pradesh’s ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP)...
View ArticleRush University notifies 45,000 patients after discovering insider wrongdoing...
Last month, Rush University Hospital notified HHS of a breach that they reportedly discovered in December. The breach, affecting 908 patients, was coded as an Unauthorized Access/Disclosure incident...
View ArticleHealth Alliance Plan notifies more than 120,000 patients of Wolverine...
Entities affected by the Wolverine Solutions Group breach continue to be revealed. The ransomware incident at the business associate, was reported previously on this site as impacting more than 700...
View ArticleMI: Thousands of Mary Free Bed patients impacted by Wolverine’s ransomware...
Fox17 reports on yet another victim entity caught up in the Wolverine Solutions breach: Thousands of patients at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital have been impacted by a data breach at a medical...
View ArticleShould Companies Terminate Third Party Vendors That Cause A Data Breach?
Joseph Lazzarotti of Jackson Lewis writes: According to reports, bank customers in Australia (yes, data breach notification requirements exist down under) have been affected by “an industry-wide” data...
View ArticleMA: Emerson Hospital reports data breach
Robert Mills reports, in relevant part: Emerson Hospital is offering a two-year membership to an identity protection service to 6,300 patients whose personal information was part of a data breach...
View ArticleAnother business associate breach, another gap to notification of patients
So here’s yet another breach with what seems like a long delay to notification. In this case, Re-Solutions, a division of RSC Insurance Brokerage in Massachusetts, is a business associate to healthcare...
View ArticlePersonal information of over 800,000 blood donors was accessible online for 2...
Felicia Choo reports: The personal information of more than 800,000 people who have donated or tried to donate blood in Singapore since 1986 was improperly put online by a Health Sciences Authority...
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