Brian Krebs reports on yet another entity/site that did not adequately secure patient information: True Health is a privately held health services company specializing in “comprehensive testing for early detection of chronic diseases,” according to the company’s Web site. The medical reports that True Health produces contain vast amounts of extremely personal information on patients,…
Month: May 2017
CO: Thousands potentially exposed to identity theft after county published sensitive information online
Ryan Luby reports: The Larimer County Clerk and Recorder’s office made sweeping changes to how it conducts business amid a Denver7 investigation, which revealed how officials had published sensitive information belonging to thousands of people online for months. Among the records were child support liens, death certificates, and commercial lending filings. Many of them contained a variation…
Guardian Soulmates website suffers data breach
Zack Marzouk reports: Those looking for love on Guardian Soulmates have instead found explicit emails in their inboxes following a data breach. Guardian News & Media, parent company of the dating site, ruled out any outside hack, instead blaming it on human error by one of its third party technology providers. A spokesperson said: “We…
Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause notifies patients after hack
Diamond Institute for Infertility and Menopause in New Jersey recently started notifying patients of an incident involving their electronic health records server, maintained by an unnamed third party. In a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Diamond’s external counsel wrote: On February 27, 2017, Diamond discovered that an unknown individual had gained access to the…
Ontario government scrambling after printing mistake causes data breach affecting thousands
Vito Pilieci reports: The provincial government is scrambling to notify thousands of Ontarians that they have been victims of a data breach that has exposed the health card numbers, birth dates and homes addresses of at least 5,600 people. Anne-Marie Flanagan, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, admitted the breach after the…
BEC attacks have hit thousands, top $5 billion in losses globally
It’s nice to see this site’s findings agree with government assessments of a problem. It’s also nice to see our efforts put to good use. Steve Ragan has a new piece on Salted Hash with an update on BEC attacks, including those targeting W-2 information. DataBreaches.net has already compiled more than 200 instances of W-2 BEC…