State web sites that post breach reports often reveal breaches we didn’t learn about via media coverage. Here are five that I learned about in the past few days: Republic Services reported that a laptop stolen from an employee’s home contained current and former employees’ names and Social Security numbers. The theft occurred in Maricopa…
Month: August 2013
HHS adds 13 breaches to its breach tool
HHS added 13 more breaches to its breach tool this week. Let’s start with the breaches we already had some information about and indicate what new information can be gleaned from HHS’s entries: The Vitreo-Retinal Medical Group breach reportedly affected 1,837. The California Correctional Health Care Services breach affected 1,001 inmates. The Indiana Family & Social Services Administration…
Ninth months later, almost 860 Indiana residents are first being notified of the ADPI breach.
James D. Wolf Jr. of the Post-Tribune reported today that up to 860 patients who used the City of Valparaiso Fire Department ambulance service last year would be receiving breach notification letters from ADPI. You remember the ADPI breach, of course. I first reported on it November, 2012, when I also started compiling a list…
UK: Uni in Data Protection Breach
Jo Barrows reports on an e-mail gaffe involving University of York: The Department of Admissions have been left red-faced after circulating an email containing private details of a postgraduate application to every student on the applicant’s course. The email included a forwarded message from the applicant who was appealing against her rejection from a Masters…
Symantec Dodges Norton Software User’s Data Breach Suit
Juan Carlos Rodriguez of Law360 reports that the plaintiff in Haskins v. Symantec didn’t fare well: A California federal judge on Friday tossed a proposed class action accusing Symantec Corp. of hiding a data breach in which hackers stole source code for its Norton anti-virus software, finding the complaint did not properly name all the products…
Critical Pinterest Exploit threatened the privacy of millions of users
paganinip posts: Security researcher Dan Melamed has found a serious Pinterest Exploit that exposed user’s information of over 70 Million accounts. The security researcher Dan Melamed has found a Critical Pinterest Exploit that compromised the privacy of over 70 Million Users, the flaw allows hackers to view the email address of any user on Pinterest. Dan has found the way…