I’m not really surprised by a story I read today, as I go to a lot of businesses that tell me they still haven’t enabled the chip reader on their Point of Sale (POS) systems, but this is the first time I’ve actually seen a report of a business penalized it for it by a bank….
Month: May 2016
Danish Authorities Investigate OkCupid Incident
Joseph Cox reports the follow-up to a breach that I covered on PogoWasRight.org. The breach involved a Danish grad student dumping OkCupid users’ personal and sensitive info in a data set for “research” purposes, claiming it was “public” data. They had neither sought nor obtained consent to scrape the user database, and although they did not include…
Ca: Veterans Affairs admits to another privacy breach by Canadian legion staff
David Pugliese reports: Veterans Affairs is acknowledging another case where the confidential files of a Canadian veteran were accessed, without consent, by an employee of the Royal Canadian Legion. The Ottawa Citizen reported on such cases in early May, but at the time, Veterans Affairs said it was aware of only one complaint about unauthorized…
WA: Northshore School District students receive emails with inappropriate messages
Janet Kim reports: The Northshore School District is updating parents that student’s emails were not hacked, instead were spammed after first warning parents that an outsider gained access to student emails. Now students are locked out of their emails with just weeks left in the school year, as the district investigates this serious security breach….
Pacific Gas and Electric database exposed; Company claims data “fake”
MacKeeper Security Researcher Chris Vickery has reported on yet another misconfigured database. This one belongs to PG& E in California. Whether the database contains real data or not is something the Department of Homeland Security should investigate, as the company tells Chris the data are “fake,” and Chris does not believe them, partly because entities…
Tucson ER info with 1,000 names is stolen from doctor’s car
Emily Bregel reports: A Tucson doctor’s logbook was stolen from her car in March, compromising protected health information for more than 1,000 patients who visited Carondelet St. Mary’s and Carondelet St. Joseph’s emergency rooms. All patients have been notified of the breach of confidentiality and have been offered a year of free credit monitoring, said…