Notifiable Data Breaches We are currently seeking public comment on the following draft resources: What to include in an eligible data breach statement Notifiable Data Breach statement Exceptions to notification obligations Guide to OAIC Privacy Regulatory Action – Chapter 9: Data breach incidents Assessing a suspected data breach Please provide any comments by 23 October…
Month: September 2017
Whole Foods suffers data breach in some stores
Angelica LaVito reports: Whole Foods, which was recently acquired by Amazon, suffered a data breach of credit card information used in taprooms and full table-service restaurants in some of the grocery chain’s stores, the company said Thursday. Whole Foods noted these venues use a different point-of-sale system than the main checkout systems. Credit cards used…
Russian hacker wanted by U.S. tells court he worked for Putin’s party
Jack Stubbs reports: A Russian hacker arrested in Spain on a U.S. warrant said on Thursday he previously worked for President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party and feared he would be tortured and killed if extradited, RIA news agency reported. Peter Levashov was arrested while on holiday in Barcelona in April. U.S. prosecutors later charged…
Data breach at Toms River police headquarters
Erik Larsen reports: The township plans to notify about 3,700 people that their personal information may have been compromised by a data breach inside the Police Department over the summer, said Chief Mitch Little. Toms River’s chief of police said his department first discovered a problem on Aug. 2, when its computer assisted dispatch server…
Fresno USD notifies employees of newly discovered breach
It appears that the Fresno Unified School District had a breach involving employee data a few years ago, but only discovered it now. Even now, however, they do not yet seem to know exactly how or when the breach occurred. From their notification letter: On July 5, 2017, Fresno Unified contacted the Gilroy Police Department…
Arkansas Oral & Facial Surgery Center notifies 128,000 patients of ransomware incident
Arkansas Oral & Facial Surgery Center disclosed a ransomware incident that may or may not have resulted in access to protected health information. As they explain in their notice to patients of September 24, 2017: On July 26, 2017, Arkansas Oral & Facial Surgery Center discovered that its computer network had been impacted by ransomware,…