The allegations fly back and forth and are enough to make your head spin. I really don’t know what to believe in this case. Akash Kolluru reports: The Andhra Pradesh government is mulling action against the Telangana Police in the alleged data theft case, accusing the police department of stealing “sensitive data”. Late on Wednesday…
Month: March 2019
Chinese Hackers Target Universities in Pursuit of Maritime Military Secrets
Dustin Volz reports: Chinese hackers have targeted more than two dozen universities in the U.S. and around the globe as part of an elaborate scheme to steal research about maritime technology being developed for military use, cybersecurity experts and current and former U.S. officials said. Read more on WSJ.
PA: Thomas County School District notifies employees of online banking system breach
From their notification: March 5, 2019 The Thomas County School District values its employees and wants you to be aware of an incident that may involve your bank account information. We recently became aware of a breach of our online banking system. After discovering the issue, we immediately engaged BlueVoyant, a leading IT investigation and…
PA: Former Patient Coordinator Pleads Guilty to Wrongfully Disclosing Health Information to Cause Harm
There’s an update to an insider wrong-doing HIPAA case first reported in July, 2018. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania: PITTSBURGH, PA – A resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of wrongfully disclosing the health information of another individual, United States Attorney Scott W….
Update on Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane HIPAA incident affecting 400,000 patients
On February 18, 2019, Columbia Surgical Specialists of Spokane notified HHS of a breach impacting 400,000 patients. The incident was coded as a network/IT incident involving data on the network server. DataBreaches.net reached out to the entity for additional details concerning what we hypothesized was a ransomware attack. But despite two phone calls to the…
Global Robotic Process Automation Company’s Event App Exposed Attendees Info
In today’s “FFS Moment,” Bob Diachenko reports: On March 1st 2019, I discovered another non password protected MongoDB that appeared to contain data related to San Jose, California based Automation Anywhere. They are the developers of robotic process automation software but this backup contained an application created specifically for Automation Anywhere’s premier customer event called…