GFarma News reports: Nearly 20 people were arrested late last week in Drug Enforcement Agency task force raids across Northern California, including at two locations in San Francisco, in what federal authorities are calling a “broad ranging criminal conspiracy” to traffic methamphetamines, heroin and other drugs. […] The affidavit also alleges that Claudia Munoz, Escalante’s…
Month: August 2016
ID: Accounting firm Presnell Gage reports data security breach
The Lewiston Tribune reports: The personal information of Presnell Gage Accounting and Consulting clients may have been accessed without authorization during a recent data security breach, according to a company news release. A small percentage of clients had fraudulent tax returns filed without their authorization, according to a news release from the Lewiston-based company. Presnell…
Harbin Clinic notifies patients that records stored at Iron Mountain are lost, missing, or destroyed
Seen on their web site: On August 2, 2016, Harbin Clinic was notified by document storage facility Iron Mountain, Inc., that several boxes of medical records are unaccounted for and/or are missing or destroyed from their Atlanta facility. Harbin Clinic engaged the data safety warehouse to maintain the privacy of our patients’ records, as Iron Mountain…
An unprotected database containing personal customer data of thousands of off-grid electricity customers was accessible for months.
Zack Whittaker reports: Thousands of remote villagers in Guatemala and South Africa are living off the grid, but their personal information isn’t. Chris Vickery, lead security researcher of the MacKeeper security research team, discovered an unprotected database with no password over two months ago. Anyone who knew the database was there could access more than…
Class Claims St. Jude Pacemakers Can Be Hacked
From the you’re-not-really-surprised-by-this-are-you? dept., Don DeBenedictis reports: In a class action that sounds like a Tom Clancy novel, a patient claims that pacemakers and other implanted heart devices sold by St. Jude Medical can be attacked by hackers to steal personal information and even harm patients. Clinton W. Ross Jr. claims that several lines of…
Mass download of Poles’ personal data sparks fears
PAP reports: Downloading personal data from the national identification number (PESEL) database is well within the rights of bailiff offices, as a way of verifying if they are targeting the right person. But the sheer amount of downloads has raised concerns that the data may have been used for purposes other than intended. For example,…