Aaron Curtis reports: The Concord Police Department is alerting residents to the possible exposure of private citizen’s personal information after the wrong version of the weekly police log was accidentally posted to the town’s website, according to a press release. The log file posted contained the personal information of individuals who reported incidents or were…
Month: January 2019
UK: Computer hacker, 21, faces jail for stealing customer details from TalkTalk in massive data breach which cost the mobile network £77m
Henry Martin reports: A computer hacker who stole customer details from mobile network TalkTalk in a massive data breach which cost the company £77m in lost business is facing jail. Daniel Kelley, 21, was one of a group of cyber criminals behind the massive data breach in October 2015. The gang also demanded 465 bitcoin…
Aetna settles with California in HIV-related privacy breach
AP reports: Aetna will pay $935,000 after one of its vendors sent letters to California patients that revealed via a window on the envelopes that the recipients were taking HIV-related medications, officials said Wednesday. The settlement resolves allegations that Aetna violated state health privacy laws, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said. Nearly 2,000 Californians —…
Palisades Park officials say nearly $500,000 is missing from its accounts in bank breach
Kristie Cattafi reports: Officials in Palisades Park were notified last week that nearly half a million dollars had been drained from its accounts at Mariner’s Bank, the borough’s mayor and business administrator said Wednesday. Mariner’s Bank, which is based in Edgewater and has seven locations in Bergen County, told the officials that $460,000 was missing…
Airbus data breach impacts employees in Europe
Catalin Cimpanu reports: European aerospace corporation Airbus disclosed today a security breach that impacted its commercial aircraft manufacturing business. The company said the security breach “resulted in unauthorised access to data.” According to a press release published earlier today, Airbus said that “some personal data was accessed,” but “mostly professional contact and IT identification details…
UK: Medical records end up in St Helena Hospice shop
Caroline Tilley reports: Dozens of confidential patient medical records were breached after they ended up in a charity shop, it has been revealed. More than 40 patients at Mersea Island Medical Practice were affected by the breach when a GP took the documents home and accidentally donated them to St Helena’s Hospice. Staff members realised…