As 2019 draws to a close, some entities are taking harder look at storing PHI...
Okay, so two exemplars doesn’t prove any kind of trend, but I’m glad to see some entities now taking steps to reduce how much PHI is stored in employee email accounts. Here are two recent incidents,...
View ArticleCO: Aurora Water announces data breach involving Click2Gov payment system
Author: Janet Oravetz reports: Personal information of some Aurora Water customers, such as names, card numbers and expiration dates, may have been compromised through a data breach, according to the...
View ArticleMercy Health Lorain Hospital Laboratory patients notified of HIPAA breach due...
Although no actual or attempted access or misuse of patient or guarantor information has been discovered, RCM Enterprise Services, Inc. (“RCM”) is providing notice to certain individuals regarding an...
View ArticleOR: The City of Bend discloses Click2Gov breach
The City of Bend was recently informed that a potential data security incident may have compromised the payment card information of some City utility customers who made one-time utility bill payments...
View ArticleOH: ‘Human error’ causes county data loss
Jennifer Woods reports: Due to “human error,” up to six months of data for a few county offices was lost or had to be re-uploaded to a computer system in December, according to the Fayette County...
View ArticleCollege Athlete Recruiting Software Exposed Students’ Medical Info, Grades
Joseph Cox reports: Front Rush, a technology company that provides services to college athletics programs, exposed a server containing more than 700,000 files to the open internet, including college...
View ArticleNY: Albany Airport falls victim to cyber attack
WNYT reports: Albany International Airport was the subject of a cyber attack on Christmas day. […] LogicalNet, the authority’s Schenectady-based computer management provider, says its own network had...
View ArticleLondon: New data leak exposes owners of 400,000 anonymous companies
Richard L. Cassin reports: Millions of documents leaked from a corporate services firm with a posh London address are helping journalists unmask owners of secret offshore companies and the alleged...
View Article“Real People,” real data leak: Production company leak exposed personal data...
Lucy Ingham reports: A data breach at UK-based Fresh Film Productions, which makes adverts for high-profile companies including Unilever, has exposed sensitive personal data of participants in...
View ArticleAU: P&N Bank discloses data breach, customer account information, balances...
Charlie Osborne reports: P&N Bank is informing customers of a data breach in which personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive account information was exposed. On Wednesday, a security...
View ArticleIowa DHS data breach: Boxed for shredding, documents were dumped by janitor...
Andrea May Sahouri reports: The Iowa Department of Human Services reported Friday a data breach that occurred in November involving personal information of 4,784 individuals related to income...
View ArticleDOD contractor suffers ransomware infection
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA), a 40-year-old electronics company and a well-known US government contractor, has suffered a ransomware infection, ZDNet has learned. The...
View ArticlePersonal Data Of 650,000 Oregonians Exposed After Medical Vendor’s Computer...
Kristian Foden-Vencil A stolen computer has exposed the personal information — including names, social security numbers and addresses — of more than 650,000 Oregonians. Thieves stole a computer from...
View ArticleMA: Shields Health Solutions Notified Patients after Hack of Employee Email...
From their website (they also published a press release on this incident): Shields Health Solutions takes seriously the confidentiality and security of patient information. Regrettably, this notice is...
View ArticleZA: Nedbank warns clients after data breach – 1.7 million clients potentially...
BusinessTech reports: Nedbank says it has investigated a data security issue that occurred at the premises of a third-party service provider, namely Computer Facilities – a direct marketing company...
View ArticleNV: Hackers compromise financial information for Carson City residents who...
Did you think we were done with reports of Click2Gov clients discovering they had been hacked? Guess again…. Kelsey Penrose reports: According to a letter sent out to a group of residents who pay...
View ArticleWV: Charleston Lube Partners, LLC Provides Notice of a Payment Card Security...
Via PR Newswire: Charleston Lube Partners, LLC, the independent owner and operator of Quaker Steak & Lube®, Charleston, West Virginia (“restaurant”), provides notice of an event that may affect the...
View ArticleNC: Wake County learns that 1,900 employees affected by breach at former...
Posted to Wake County’s website yesterday (h/t, WDTV/Yahoo) Wake County’s former flexible benefit spending accounts administrator, Interactive Medical Systems, recently reported that it experienced a...
View ArticleNY: Computer breach exposes Community Care Physicians patients’ info
Eric Anderson reports: A number of Community Care Physicians patients may have had their protected health information, date of birth, and insurance coverage exposed during a hack of computers at...
View ArticleTransmit Security, Authentication Company Used by Banks, Hacked
Joseph Cox reports: This week a cybersecurity company called Transmit Security, that focuses on providing corporate clients with tools to securely log users into different services, notified customers...
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