Back on May 22, this blog reported that Vendini, an online ticketing service provider, had experienced a hack on March 29 that they detected on April 25. Names, addresses, email addresses, credit card numbers and credit card expiration dates were on the hacked server. The firm started notifying its clients during the week of May 21,…
Month: June 2013
Medical records breach at Tampa General, USF exposes woman's secret
Letitia Stein reports: Jennifer Jones didn’t want her entire family to know about the baby girl she delivered five years ago at Tampa General Hospital and placed for adoption. But a relative whose job as a nurse gave her access to the hospital’s medical records went snooping and found out anyway. The breach came to…
NC: ABC Store information hack more widespread than Greensboro
Mitch Carr reports: The State Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission revealed Thursday that credit card information for customers at ABC stores in Greensboro and elsewhere had been compromised. In an email , public affairs director Agnes Stevens said, “It appears that an outside scammer has hacked into the computer/sales system used by Greensboro and several other…
Before-and-after pictures uploaded to web site leads to lawsuit by plastic surgery patient
I’ve occasionally posted stories involving complaints against plastic surgeons who used patients’ before and after photos, allegedly without their consent (cf here, here, here, and here). Now there’s a similar lawsuit in New York, where Catherine Manzione has sued Dr. Grigoriy Mashkevich. TechDirt has the story and complaint.
Facebook breach affected more than Facebook acknowledged – researchers
Jam Kotenko reports: When Facebook came clean about a recent security bug that caused the exposure of 6 million users’ personal information to their contacts, they softened the blow by saying that the effect of the bug was probably minimal, since the people who likely received their friends’ data could have already had access to the contact…
Stolen Laptop May Have Compromised Students’ Personal Info
ABC in South Carolina reports: It’s a breech in security at the University of South Carolina. A spokesperson says a computer stolen from the physics and astronomy department at the end of April may have compromised the personal information of more than 6,000 students. We’re talking names, e-mail addresses and social security numbers. The affected…