External counsel for Nordic Consulting Partners has notified the NH Attorney General’s Office of a breach: This Firm represents Nordic Consulting Partners, Inc. (“Nordic”) in connection with a situation where an email with the wrong attachment was inadvertently sent out to current and former Nordic employees. The attachment contained the personal information of the recipients…
Month: August 2016
FI: Researchers of leaking psychological test results
Helsinki Times reports: The Finnish Defence Forces’ accusations that researchers have leaked the results of psychological tests conducted on hundreds of thousands of conscripts are exceptional, estimates Reijo Aarnio, the Data Protection Ombudsman of Finland. […] The scope of the alleged data leak is very unusual, if not outright unprecedented, says Aarnio.“But you’re talking about…
AL: Former employee arrested for taking customer’s identity
AL.com reports: A former Best Way Rent-to-Own employee was arrested for identity theft on Friday, Decatur police said. Store managers filed a theft report on April 15 after a former customer received a bill for purchased items. Danielle Ashley Mayes, 28, became a suspect during the investigation. […]
Apple, Intel, Google Employee Accounts Exposed in Data Breach of Developer Forum
Joseph Cox reports: Hackers have stolen thousands of accounts from a developers’ forum, including some belonging to Apple, Google, and Intel employees. The data comes from the website of Khronos Group, a non-profit focused on the creation of open standard APIs for the playback of media files on various platforms and devices. The group manages Open Graphics Library…
If you advertise it “100% safe and secure,” it’d better be
NY Announces $100K Settlement With E-Retailer After Data Breach Exposes Over 25K Credit Card Numbers NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a settlement with Provision Supply, LLC, d/b/a EZcontactsUSA.com, involving a data breach resulting in the potential exposure of over 25,000 credit card numbers and other cardholder data. EZcontactsUSA.com has agreed to…
Data breaches at Advocate Health Care leads to biggest ever settlement
I’ve had a lot of coverage of Advocate Health’s breaches over the past years that you can access here. Here’s is HHS’s announcement of the settlement of their charges: Advocate Health Care Network (Advocate) has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), for multiple…