Ingrid Lunden and Zack Whittaker report: … Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that a certain “limited” number of people who use web email services managed by Microsoft — which cover services like @msn.com and @hotmail.com — had their accounts compromised. “We addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the…
Month: April 2019
CA: Student council presidential election hacked by candidate
AP reports: The first online election for student government at Berkeley High School became a lesson in more than democracy. Students also learned about vote fraud, hacking and digital privacy after a high school junior who was running for class president cast hundreds of fake online votes for himself. As many as 2,400 students were…
Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents
Zack Whittaker reports: A hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and uploaded their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing the personal information of thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officers, TechCrunch has learned. The hackers breached three sites associated with the FBI National Academy Association, a coalition of different chapters…
How long should it take to issue a breach notification?
Attorney Matt Fisher writes: Notice of a new data breach is posted at least once a day. A frequent feature of many notices is the disclosure that the conduct giving rise to the breach happened months earlier, with the delay sometimes going into years in some instances. The notices typically do not provide much insight…
Questcare Medical Services notifies North Texas patients of data security breach
Here’s a breach description that sounds a lot like the one I just posted from Dakota County, MN. Questcare Medical Services announced Friday that it is addressing a security incident that involved the personal information of patients in the Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington area. Questcare said in a statement that it has begun an internal investigation, notified…
Blue Cross of Idaho Notice of Privacy Breach
Boise, Idaho (April 12, 2019) – Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service, Inc. (“Blue Cross of Idaho”) is providing notice to certain members of a recent incident involving protected health information (“PHI”) which qualifies as privacy breach. On March 21, 2019, an unauthorized user accessed Blue Cross of Idaho’s online provider portal with the intent…