One of the incidents the Veterans Administration reported to Congress for July affected thousands of veterans seen in South Carolina. The VA reports that an employee noticed on July 14 that four boxes that were being prepared for shipment to the Records Center and Vault located in Neosho, Missouri, were missing. According to the employee, the boxes…
Month: August 2014
AU: Federal privacy authorities called in over Centrelink breach
Noel Towell reports: Federal privacy authorities have been called in after Centrelink left revealing personal and financial details of clients lying around at a suburban railway station last month. Documents containing details of 23 clients’ full financial disclosures, including bank account numbers and details of property holdings, superannuation and investments, were left by an official…
Community Health Systems says 4.5 million patients' data stolen in cyber attack (updated)
Reuters reports: U.S. hospital operator Community Health Systems Inc said it suspected personal data, including patient names and addresses, of about 4.5 million people were stolen by Chinese hackers from its computer network during April and June. The company said the data, considered protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, included patient names,…
Wyndham Says FTC Must Detail Consumer Harm In Data Suit
Kira Lerner reports: Wyndham Worldwide Corp. told a New Jersey federal judge on Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission must prove that the cyberattacks against the hotel chain, which the agency alleges led to more than $10.6 million in losses, caused “substantial injury to consumers which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves.” Read more…
GA: Henry County PD issues ID theft alert
Neighbor Newspapers reports: The Henry County Criminal Investigations Division and investigators from Sun Trust Bank began conducting an investigation Aug. 14 in which 225 customers’ accounts have been compromised. Customers using the Sun Trust Bank automated teller machine at 942 Hwy. 81 East, McDonough, Aug. 1 between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. may have had…
AU: Student Faces Two Years In Prison For Allegedly Hacking Frances Abbott’s Scholarship Information
Peter Terlato reports on a hack leading to a bit of a political flap: A 21-year-old communications student from the University of Technology, Sydney has been charged with gaining unlawful access to restricted files which contained information pertaining to Frances Abbott’s $60,000 scholarship. NSW Police issued a court summons to part-time librarian Freya Newman earlier…