Brian Krebs reports: Welcome to Day 2 of Cybersecurity (Breach) Awareness Month! Today’s awareness lesson is brought to you by retail brokerage firm Scottrade Inc., which just disclosed a breach involving contact information and possibly Social Security numbers on 4.6 million customers. In an email sent today to customers, St. Louis-based Scottrade said it recently heard…
Month: October 2015
1,040 Sentara Heart Hospital patients notified of HIPAA breach
Elizabeth Simpson reports that a person or persons managed to steal two portable hard drives with PHI from two electrophysiology labs at Sentara Heart Hospital in August: The August theft of two portable hard drives from Sentara Heart Hospital’s electrophysiology labs led hospital officials to send letters about a security breach this week to 1,040 patients….
UK: 3,634 patients hit by East Sussex Healthcare Trust data breach
The Hastings & St. Leonards Observer reports that one of the trust’s consultants lost a thumb drive with data on over 3,600 patients. Hospital papers have revealed the confidential details of more than 3,500 patients were discovered on an unencrypted data stick. The incident was discussed at an East Sussex Healthcare Trust board meeting on…
FTSE heads for weekly rise but Experian drops on US data breach
It’s always interesting to see if a company’s stock prices take any hit from a breach. Nick Fletcher reports on The Guardian: Leading shares are moving higher ahead of the US jobs data, with banks boosted by news of a deadline being set for consumers to claim for mis-sold payment protection insurance. But Experian has dropped more…
AU: Retailer David Jones reports online breach
The Australian reports: Up-market retailer David Jones says its website has been hacked and private customer data stolen, a day after a similar attack on Kmart’s wesbite. David Jones said today that it recently learned that a third party exploited a vulnerability in its website to extract limited information about some of our customers. The information obtained includes names,…
American Bankers Association notifies 6,400 to reset passwords after hack and data dump
So it seems that the American Bankers Association had a breach, although I didn’t see it any mainstream media reports. Marc Hochstein noted the breach in a column he wrote today: American Bankers Association separately said that email addresses and passwords used to make purchases or register for events through its online shopping cart had…