In reviewing the Click2Gov breaches, I just discovered another one from October that I hadn’t posted on this site. Let’s remedy that now. Statement on Click2Gov Data Security Incident INDIO, CA (October 12, 2018) – Indio Water Authority (IWA) was informed in September of a cybersecurity incident potentially affecting the credit card information of customers…
Month: December 2018
IA: Data breach found in city of Ames’ parking ticket payment system. It’s Click2Gov, again.
The Ames Tribune reports on yet another breach report involving Click2Gov (by CentralSquare Technologies): A data breach to the city’s parking ticket payment system may have affected 4,600 customers who paid a city-issued ticket on the city’s online payment system between Aug. 10 and Nov. 19, city officials said Friday in a news release. […]…
San Mateo Medical Center notifies patients after records erroneously recycled instead of shredded
Updated Feb. 22, 2019. DataBreaches.net was notified that HHS had finally removed the disputed listing from their portal. But when I checked, I found that it had not really been removed. OCR had closed its case and moved the entry to its archived list, with the following note: On November 13, 2018, OCR received a…
Judge Orders Software Exec to Turn Over Laptop After He Leaked Data on Facebook
Kartikay Mehrotra reports: The co-founder of a software company was ordered by a judge to surrender his laptop to a forensic expert after admitting he turned over confidential documents about Facebook Inc. to the U.K. Parliament in violation of a U.S. court order. Sensitive internal Facebook records that were supposed to remain sealed in a…
Thundermist Health Center dealing with ‘ransomware’ attack
Sarah Doiron reports from Rhode Island: A local health center is working to resolve problems with its computer system after officials say it was the target of a “ransomware” attack. Thundermist Health Center, which is based out of Woonsocket and has offices in South Kingstown and West Warwick, was hit with the attack around 8…