WALB is just all over a breach involving Phoebe Putney Hospital in Georgia that was disclosed yesterday. Today, WALB reports that two employees have been fired over the breach, which the hospital still hasn’t described as a theft: Phoebe officials say a computer forensics investigation showed only 13 people’s social security numbers were recorded on that…
Month: January 2014
More on today's HHS update: newly disclosed incidents
The remainder of today’s HHS update consists of breaches I did not previously cover on this blog. I’ve added details where I can find them. If there are no details, it means I looked, but couldn’t find anything yet. If you can add/provide details, please e-mail this site. Metcare of Florida, Inc reported that 2,557 were…
Dropbox hacked? Not so fast… (updated)
A hacker group calling themselves @1775Sec on Twitter claims to have hacked DropBox. They’ve since posted some data on a paste site that consists of names and e-mail addresses. Lee of CyberWarNews.info, however, has challenged them to provide real proof, noting that the data they posted matches previously leaked e-mail lists. And for its part,…
Today's HHS update included 16 incidents we already knew about
Working through the latest updates to HHS’s breach tool, the following are incidents where we already knew something about the breach. Once again, some of these entries refer to breaches that occurred in 2012, and I have no idea why HHS didn’t post these publicly before now. Links are to previous coverage on this blog…
Hackers Steal Card Data from Neiman Marcus
Brian Krebs reports: Responding to inquiries about a possible data breach involving customer credit and debit card information, upscale retailer Neiman Marcus acknowledged today that it is working with the U.S. Secret Service to investigate a hacker break-in that has exposed an unknown number of customer cards. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com.
OK, now HHS is messing with me…
Friday afternoon and HHS has added dozens of new updates/revisions to the breach tool – after adding dozens more during the week? Yikes. As before, some of them appear to be older incidents that had never been posted publicly while others are more recent. One change that I noted immediately is that they’ve now organized…