Last month, DataBreaches.net was contacted by Kromtech Security’s research team and asked to assist it in alerting a medical billing firm that they were exposing patients’ personal and protected health information on their backup server. On June 12, DataBreaches.net sent iMax Medical Billing in Ohio a message and left them a voice mail, alerting them…
Month: July 2017
The AA Exposed Emails, Credit Card Data, and Didn’t Inform Customers
Joseph Cox reports: Last week rumours of a potentially serious data breach at UK car insurance company the AA circulated in the security research community. In response, the AA’s customer support Twitter account downplayed those fears, and told users that their data remained secure. However, an exposed server contained sensitive information on over 100,000 AA…
Data leak at Dutch Tax Office; Finance Sec. pressing charges
Janene Pieters reports: An investigation into the Tax Authorities‘ practices in handling confidential information revealed ten cases of “unauthorized data exchange”, State Secretary Eric Wiebes of Finances informed parliament in a letter. In one case, the State Secretary pressed charges with the Public Prosecutor, he wrote. The investigation in the Data & Analytics department is…
Former Dentons associate accused in extortion plot involving threat to leak documents to legal blog
Debra Cassens Weiss reports: A former Dentons litigation associate in Los Angeles has been charged with extortion for allegedly threatening to leak sensitive law firm documents to the blog Above the Law unless his demands were met. Former associate Michael Potere, 32, is accused of demanding that the law firm pay him $210,000 and give…
Minister Acknowledges Sunshine List Privacy Breach
An investigation is underway into an apparent privacy breach that occurred yesterday, as government released its Sunshine List for 2016. The report lists all employees in government and government agencies, boards and commissions who made more than $100,000 dollars last year. 43 employees were granted exemptions from the list, to protect their safety, mental or…
Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Bitcoin From Other Dark Web Criminals
From the no-honor-among-thieves dept., Catalin Cimpanu reports: A Connecticut man pleaded guilty last week to stealing Bitcoin from users of Dark Web marketplaces, said the Department of Justice on Tuesday. The FBI arrested the man — Michael Richo, 35, of Wallingford, Connecticut — on November 6, 2014, but only arraigned him in court last year…