Joe Lofaro reports: The Rideau Centre says there was no privacy breach in its free WiFi network, despite a claim from a post on social media that shoppers’ email addresses were exposed online. The incident, which was the subject of a recent Reddit post, purported to expose the email addresses of previous shoppers who have…
Month: January 2016
Employee Data More Exposed Than Customer Data: Study
Kelly Jackson Higgins reports: Midsized companies do a better job protecting their customer information than that of their own employees or their internal intellectual property, a new study found. Nearly one-third of companies and organizations with 100- to 2,000 employees in the US, Canada, India, Australia, Japan, and Malaysia, say they don’t regularly encrypt their…
Compromised email account exposed patient info from Brigham and Women’s and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospitals
Brigham and Women’s and Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospitals, who reported a phishing incident in April 2015, are reporting another incident involving the compromise of an employee’s email account. How the login credentials were compromised is not reported. In a statement posted to their website, they provide other details: On November 13, 2015, Brigham learned that…
Delco contractor hijacks website, steals thousands for project he didn’t start – District Attorney
Daniel Craig reports: A Delaware County contractor is being accused of stealing thousands of dollars from homeowners for a project he never started and illegally taking over a website he was hired to create in order to do so. Prosecutors announced the charges against 39-year-old Vincent Cottrell of the 1200 block of Foss Avenue in…
IN: Tax documents found in dumpster, lying on ground
Paris Lewbel reports that people’s tax returns were found in a dumpster and on the ground behind a strip mall in Indianapolis. The Indiana Attorney General’s Office has opened an investigation into the incident, which may be linked to a nearby and unnamed tax preparation service: Two employees at a nearby tax preparation service –…
Nursing Assistant Fired, Charged After Posting Nude Video of 93-Year-Old on Snapchat
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Jan. 19, 2016, 1:36 p.m. A former nursing assistant at a Wisconsin assisted-living facility has been charged with a felony for allegedly taking a video of a mostly naked resident and posting it on Snapchat — the latest in a series of cases in which dehumanizing photos of seniors have been…