Mark Eichorn of the FTC writes: It’s a question we’re asked a lot. “What happens if I’m the target of an FTC investigation involving data security?” We understand – no one wants to get that call. But we hope we can shed some light on what a company can expect. First things first. All of…
Month: May 2015
Dentrix vulnerability still poses risk to patient data: researcher
In early 2014, and over on PHIprivacy.net, I published some posts expressing concern about a vulnerability in Dentrix software, Dentrix’s claims at the time that its G5 product incorporated “encryption,” and their subsequent decision that the firm would not individually notify all customers that what the customers had been sold as “encryption” was not encryption. Following up on the public posts,…
Chicago Public Schools breach affects 4,000 students
Melissa Sanchez reports: CPS mistakenly shared the names, home addresses, phone numbers, disability status and other personal information of 4,000 students to five vendors seeking to do business with the district. After learning of the unusual data breach, CPS officials say they took steps to remedy their actions. These include instructing the companies to dispose…
Telstra-owned Pacnet hit by major data breach
David Ramli reports: Australia’s leading cyber-spies have joined the hunt for hackers who broke into Telstra’s Asian subsidiary Pacnet in an attack affecting thousands of customers including The Australian Federal Police, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and other government agencies. Telstra on Wednesday revealed that an unknown third-party had gained complete access to Pacnet’s corporate network including emails and…
Home Depot still shelling out for data breach
PYMNTS reports: Like Target, Home Depot knows all too well that the true cost of a payments data breach won’t be known until long after the dust from the cyberattack settles. While Home Depot’s earnings are on the mend, as the retailer posted a better than expected first quarter earnings, the lingering expenses from the…
Hacker data dumps scrape to make huge grey marketing database
Darren Pauli reports: Former password collector Steve Thomas plans to tear up the contact broker market by offering a database of 30 million names for free, all built on data sourced by scraping the web. The former PwnedList founder, and now SalesMaple CEO, says the database will soon to balloon to almost 100 million records….