Ildefonso Ortiz reports: A Donna man with ties to the international computer hacking group Anonymous is accused of trying to break into various Web servers, including those of Hidalgo County, La Joya ISD and The Monitor. Thursday morning, a somber-looking Fidel Salinas went before Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby, who informed him of the new accusations presented…
Month: April 2014
WA: Audit shows security breach from state’s surplus computer sales
Joel Moreno reports: The state auditor is warning of a massive security breach caused by the government’s surplus computers. An investigation uncovered hard drives loaded with confidential information that could be plundered by identity thieves — and the problem has been going on for years. Every year, Washington state sells off 10,000 used computers as…
Lubbock Cardiology Clinic security breach in electronic health records
Ellysa Gonzalez reports: The Lubbock Cardiology Clinic bought an advertisement on the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal website to announce a security breach in its Electronic Health Record system. The advertisement reads, “To the patients of Lubbock Cardiology Clinic, it is with regret that I must inform you of an unauthorized access into the HER (sic) containing our…
Clinical Reference Laboratory notifying some insurance applicants that personal information was lost in the mail.
Clinical Reference Laboratory is notifying individuals who applied for insurance with Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company that some of their personal information may have been lost in the mail. On April 9, CRL wrote that invoices for their services were sent to Nationwide on February 6 with applicants’ names, dates of birth, last four digits of…
Hey “Chicken Littles,” Wyndham Doesn’t Mean the Sky is Falling
Jeff Kosseff writes: Based on the extensive news coverage of this week’s court ruling against Wyndham Hotels and Resorts in its battle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), one would think that the sky is falling on efforts to resist FTC enforcement actions relating to data security. Adweek wrote that the case is “a test for…
Pointing fingers, Thursday edition – U.S. Info Search tells its side
On April 8, this blog published a post concerning the Court Ventures breach that questioned whether Experian was getting a bad rap for a breach that started with Court Ventures and its reciprocal data sharing agreement with U.S. Info Search. Unbeknownst to DataBreaches.net at the time, U.S. Info Search had issued a press release the…