Michelle McQuigge reports: Carleton University is urging caution among staff and students after discovering potential hacking tools on a handful of classroom computers. The university says it discovered USB key-logging devices on six classroom computers across three university buildings. Carleton says staff discovered the devices last week during what it called a routine classroom inspection,…
Month: March 2017
VN: 5,000 health insurance cards issued with incorrect information
VNS reports: Local health insurance authorities of the central province of Nghệ An have issued some 5,000 health insurance cards with wrong personal information, the provincial authority has said. A group of supervisors from the province’s People’s Council released the figure in a report after conducting urgent checks on local health insurance authorities in the…
Virginia Adds Notification Requirements for Payroll Incidents to Breach Law
Liisa M. Thomas, Robert H. Newman, and Eric J. Shinabarger of Winston Strawn LLP write: With little fanfare, Virginia recently amended its data breach notification law, requiring employers and payroll service providers to notify the Virginia Attorney General if they are subject to a W2 phishing scam. More specifically, the law requires that they notify…
Washington University School of Medicine hit by phishing attack, patient info may have been accessed
KSDK reports: A third party may have gained unauthorized access to patient information — including names, birth dates and social security numbers — after a phishing attack at Washington University’s medical school. A post on the Washington University School of Medicine website said an employee fell for a phishing email designed to look like an official request…
Companies Now Face Israel Data Security, Breach Notice Rules
Jenny David reports: Companies doing business in Israel will soon face mandatory data security and data breach notification requirements under regulations recently cleared by lawmakers. The data security and breach notice had been governed by voluntary guidelines issued in 2012 by the country’s privacy regulator, the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority (ILITA). Companies that didn’t implement…
St. Louis-area health care worker admits fraud, ID theft
AP reports: Sentencing is scheduled for this summer for a Missouri home health care worker who admitted in federal court that she defrauded senior citizens. Twenty-seven-year-old De’Janay Noldon pleaded guilty Monday in St. Louis to one count each of mail fraud and identity theft. Federal prosecutors say that while working early last year as a…