Kenerson Associates in Beverly, Massachusetts is notifying 18 current and former employees whose personal information may have been accessed in a breach involving their payroll processor, Dallas, Texas-based BenefitMall. In a letter dated February 18 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Kenerson incorporated BenefitMall’s January 16th notification letter to Kenerson about the breach. Their report…
Month: February 2014
SANS "Health Care Cyberthreat Report"
Virtually all software, applications, systems and devices are now connected to the Internet. This is a reality that cybercriminals recognize and are actively exploiting. Some 94 percent of medical institutions said their organizations have been victims of a cyber attack, according to the Ponemon Institute. Now, with the push to digitize all health care records, the emergence of…
MI: Data breach at Tadych’s Econofoods in Marquette
Today February 21, 2014, Tadych’s Econofoods in Marquette, MI announced between January 8, 2014 and February 17, 2014 that various customers’ credit card and/or debit card information may have been compromised and obtained by an unauthorized person or criminal network. Individual card numbers and expiration dates may have been accessed – but not the cardholder’s…
Department of Veterans Affairs was warned privacy breach was practically unavoidable
Joe Camp reports that the I-Team kept digging into the recent eBenefits breach, and came across an interesting document: The I-Team has uncovered documents revealing the Department of Veterans Affairs was warned that a privacy breach, like the one ABC11 exposed last month, was “practically unavoidable because of problems with the VA’s information technology system.”…
Inspira Vineland notifying patients about December theft of computers with PHI
On December 27, I blogged: Four days after a computer was stolen from Inspira Medical Center Vineland, the hospital still can’t say whether there was any patient data on it? The hospital issued a statement the next day saying that no patient data was on the stolen computers, but as I noted on January 17, when they announced an…
Church of Scotland Hacked, 1,570 User & 9 Admin Accounts Leaked
Yesterday it was the Church of Cyprus and today its the Church of Scotland that hacker @security_511 has breached and leaked data from. Today’s breach is on Church of Scotland (https://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/) and leak was announced not to long ago from twitter and has been posted to pastebin. The paste contains 1,570 User & 9 administrator credentials with the…