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Huntington’s Disease Society of America suffers second security incident in six months

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Dissent

This has not been a good year for the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA). In August, I reported that an executive’s e-mail accounts was compromised, and although the attacker’s attempt at a fraudulent wire transfer was thwarted, personal information of board members, donors and vendors might have been accessed.

Now HSDA has reported another breach, this one involving a chapter treasurer’s  lost thumb drive that contained the “names, addresses, potentially photocopies of checks, and credit numbers provided to HSDA by donors, between November of 2012 and September of 2013.”

Thankfully, because they backed up the thumb drive at the end of each month to their extranet, they had a complete record of everything on the drive.

HSDA learned of the loss on October 2, and in its notification to those affected, offered them free credit monitoring services through Experian.

You can read a copy of their notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office here (pdf).

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