Buttler Schein Animal Health (a Henry Schein company) sent the following notification to customers of their subsidiary, MyVetDirect.com: We are writing to inform you that we have learned that there was a recent security incident at Butler Schein Animal Health’s systems (MyVetDirect.com) where your veterinarian’s Website is hosted. This incident may have resulted in the…
Month: December 2011
Atari and Square Enix cough to exposing users’ privates
John Leyden reports: Atari has apologised to gamers following a security breach that exposed their names and email addresses, leaving users at heightened risk of spam as a result. The gaming outfit blamed the fairly minor breach (no credit cards or mobile phone numbers were exposed) on problems introduced during a migration to a new…
UCLA Hospitals Sued Over Patient Data Breach
Amanda Bronstad reports that UCLA Health System was sued over a September breach revealed last month. The potential class action lawsuit, filed December 14, alleges violations of California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, which provides for statutory damages of $1,000/per person. At over 16,000 patients, that could cost them $16.3 million plus legal fees and…
Fertile sperm donor draws criticism from FDA, docs
Marcus Wohlsen of Associated Press reports: Physicians and the federal government cited the case of a San Francisco Bay area man who has fathered 14 children as an example of the risks posed by the informal market for sperm donations, which doctors consider unsafe but some people call a civil liberties issue. Trent Arsenault, 36,…
University of Mississippi Medical Center and Mississippi State Department of Health notify 1500 research participants that stolen laptop contained their health information
The University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Mississippi State Department of Health are informing nearly 1,500 participants in research studies of a breach of their personal health information. A UMMC faculty member had been assigned a laptop for use in the studies. On Oct. 31, a UMMC employee reported that the laptop used for…
dump of paypal accounts
yet again paypal users have become victim to a phishing./bot scam that has obtained all their details and stored them and now they have been leaked online yet again. The leak contains hundreds of accounts al with clear text passwords and emails. Be sure to use CTRL+F for quick search incase your account has been…