And it seems Danner has joined the ranks of the recently hacked. In a notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office by their lawyers on December 19, they report that on November 28, code was injected into the computer that operates their web site. The intrusion was detected on December 11. Forensic examination could not…
Month: December 2013
Huntington’s Disease Society of America suffers second security incident in six months
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,…
Privacy Group Testifies on Patient Data Matching
Initial findings from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on ways to match patients with their data do address problems with current HIT systems and data exchanges, notes advocacy organization Patient Privacy Rights. But there isn’t much else in the findings that the organization agrees with. In testimony at an ONC…
TechMedia Network to start notifying customers of hack involving credit card data (updated)
Oops? TechMedia Network will be sending out letters on December 23 that begin: We are writing to inform you of an incident that may have involved your personal information. On November 20, 2013, Techmedia Network detected an unauthorized intrusion into its systems that may have allowed access to your name, mailing address, email address, phone…
Web host Mannix Marketing hacked; Saratoga Sweets notifies clients (update1)
Saratoga Sweets is notifying customers about a hack of their web host’s server. They first learned of the hack on November 25. In a letter dated December 13, Michael Fitzgerald, Sr. writes that an unauthorized person was able to access the server containing customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, and CCV numbers. Forensic…
[CORRECTED] Woman Sues Customs and Border Protection Agents for Outrageous Six-Hour Search
[CORRECTION and APOLOGY: The original headline for this post incorrectly identified the defendants as “Border Patrol Agents.” They are not. The complaint was filed against a number of defendants, including “Two Unknown United States Customs and Border Protection Supervising Agents; United States Customs and Border Protection Agent Portillo and United States Customs and Border Protection Agent Herrera.”…