Daniel Politi reports: During a briefing on Friday, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, wanted to tell a feel-good story of where the president had decided to donate his salary this quarter. So she held up the $100,000 check that she said Trump would donate to the Department of Health and Human Services to “support…
Month: May 2020
Twitter and WhatsApp could face EU data privacy sanctions
The National reports: Twitter and Facebook’s WhatsApp are in the firing line as Europe’s leading privacy watchdog for US tech giants edges closer to delivering its first major sanctions under the region’s tough data-protection rules. The Irish Data Protection Commission said on May 22 that it finalised a draft decision linked to a data breach…
Online education site EduCBA discloses data breach after hack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Online education site EduCBA has started notifying customers that they are resetting their passwords after suffering a data breach. EduCBA is an online education site based out of India that offers over 2,500 online courses and job oriented learning programs focus on finance, technology, and business to their 500,000 learners. Yesterday, EduCBA began…
Five months after they were notified of a data breach, Prime Communication notifies 8,000 employees
Last month, I pointed readers to a news report out of Moore, Oklahoma about how Tonya Smith, a former employee of Prime Communications, had reportedly been sent an email with personal information on 8,000 of their employees. The mistake occurred on December 11, 2019 after Smith had been terminated by Prime for performance issues. In…
TN: The Little Clinic notifies more than 10,000 patients after discovering glitch in online appointment system
The following is a press release: NASHVILLE, Tenn.May 22, 2020– The Little Clinic (TLC) announced today that patients could have had their protected health information (PHI) accessed due to a failure in TLC’s online appointment functionality. The Little Clinic made the discovery internally and found if a patient made an appointment and modified that appointment online,…
Leesburg Woman Sentenced To 48 Months In Prison For Aggravated Identity Theft And Wire Fraud
There’s an update to an insider breach previously reported on this site. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida on May 19: Ocala, Florida – Senior U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Stacey Lavette Hendricks (49, Leesburg) to 48 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft and wire…