Paul Nelson reports: The personal information of about 4,600 past and present clients and several employees of Catholic Charities may have been exposed after a computer server in the Glens Falls office was hacked, according to Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Albany. It sounds like the hacked server contained some medical information on the…
Month: October 2017
Attorney: ‘White hat hacker’ tried to get Trump tax returns
Michael Kunzelman reports: A Louisiana private investigator accused of trying to illegally obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns says he is a benevolent “white hat hacker” who tried to test and report a security flaw in a government website. Jordan Hamlett tried to discover “out of sheer curiosity” whether Trump’s tax information could be accessed through…
AZ Board of Education discloses FERPA incident, sends veiled threat to recipient of disclosed material?
The Arizona State Board of Education has notified parents on a breach: Whoops: The State Board of Education says it “inadvertently” released student information when it released records on A-F grading appeals. pic.twitter.com/jwHManpAbQ — Rachel Leingang (@rachelleingang) October 26, 2017 So here’s the thing: this is the state’s error in responding to a FOIA request…
Midland County notifies residents of data breach
Violet Trevizo reports: The Midland County District Attorney is warning residents after their third-party payment system was hacked. According to a press release, information entered into a third-party payment system could have been compromised back on Sept. 6 due to a security breach. Since the forensic investigation was not conducted by the vendor, Midland County…
Student information leaked from Creighton University Trio program
Winne Dortch reports: A number of Omaha parents are now upset about a recent data breach at Creighton University. “To see all this information and as many kids as it were on this paper with all this information, I was totally out done,” Alesha Dumas said. Her daughter’s personal information was released as well. […]…
Ca: Patients of marijuana dispensary upset after personal information shared in email
Jacquie Miller reports: The owner of a medical marijuana dispensary in Gloucester has apologized after emails were accidentally sent to 24 patients that revealed the names and addresses of all the store’s customers. “Some people were obviously upset, for good reason,” said Charlie Cloutier, owner of Greenworks Medicinal on Canotek Road. Staff phoned all the…