Ann Costantino reports: A massive security flaw has been detected that allowed unrestricted access to highly sensitive records pertaining to students, staff and internal school system data on a Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) public facing website. The system’s BCPS One/Schoology platform, where students are able to access classes, grades and academic resources online, is…
Month: June 2019
The EU’s Embassy In Russia Was Hacked But The EU Kept It A Secret
Alberto Nardelli reports: The European Union’s embassy in Moscow was hacked and had information stolen from its network, according to a leaked internal document seen by BuzzFeed News. An ongoing “sophisticated cyber espionage event” was discovered in April, just weeks before the European Parliament elections — but the European External Action Service (EEAS), the EU’s…
Just when you think you’ve seen your share of stupid privacy breaches, there’s this one….
“Human error” covers a lot of breaches. Sometimes the errors are truly accidental. Other times, they are errors in judgement. Kerry Campbell reports: P.E.I.’s privacy commissioner says an employee of a dental office on P.E.I. disclosed sensitive, personal health information belonging to more than 1,000 patients, to a member of that staff person’s family. The…
23 million XRP stolen from users on GateHub due to ‘potential security breach’
Akash Grimath reports: Thomas Silkjær, the creative director at 2K/DENMARK, outlined a “potential security breach” at GateHub might have caused users to lose approximately 23 million XRP. GateHub is a wallet and gateway for to safely store/transact XRP. In a Medium article, Silkjær wrote that the breach was noticed on June 1 in a transaction of…
Ellwood City Medical Center Victim Of Cyber Attack, Not Sure If Patient Records Were Exposed
Lisa Washington reports: Ellwood City Medical Center officials are investigating whether any patient records were compromised Tuesday after a cyber attack. The Beaver County Times reports that on Tuesday, officials from Ellwood City Medical Center said the hospital was the victim of a cyber attack. This isn’t the first time the hospital is under scrutiny….
Aetna first notifying 238 Virginia employees of BenefitMall breach that they’ve known about since December, 2018?
In January, 2019, we learned about a breach at Centerstone Insurance and Financial Services, Inc. d/b/a BenefitMall, a business associate. The breach reportedly affected more than 111,000 insurance members/covered employees of the vendor’s clients. HIPAA Journal covered the incident. Yesterday, Aetna issued a public notice related to the incident. Surprisingly, their notice discloses that by…