Be forewarned: the news story misspells”breach” as “breech.” I couldn’t bring myself to use their headline so fixed that, but am leaving this: Contra Costa County officials have begun sending out letters this week to potential victims of the “unauthorized access to certain county employee email accounts” in a computer breech between July to August…
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Administrative Advantage notifies patients of Remedy Medical Group after email hack
Remedy Medical Group is a pain management specialty practice in California. Their web site indicates that they are consultants to some professional sports teams in their area. Did a breach involving some of their patients’ data also impact any prominent athletes who might receive extortion demands? At this point, there is no indication of any…
Why Did Instagram Leak Minors’ Email Addresses Again?
Jeremy Kirk reports: David Stier, a San Francisco-based data scientist, has uncovered situations in which Facebook’s Instagram service exposed the contact details of minors, such as email addresses and phone numbers. In the last month, Stier discovered that Instagram was leaking kids’ email addresses within the HMTL of the web version of users’ profiles. Instagram…
San Francisco Unified School District notifies families of Buena Vista Horace Mann students about data security incident
The San Francisco Unified School District recently notified families of current and former Buena Vista Horace Mann (BVHM) students about an incident in which student data was shared with some BVHM community members. An unsigned letter dated April 22nd from the district’s department of technology described what had transpired: On April 10, 2019, an electronic…
Former IT employee at Expedia pleads guilty to snooping on emails for stock deals
Gene Johnson reports: A former information technology worker at Expedia Inc. pleaded guilty Monday to securities fraud after authorities said he used his access to the computers of top executives to rummage through their email, then made lucrative, illegal stock trades based on the inside information he discovered. Prosecutors said Jonathan Ly, 28, of San Francisco…
City College of San Francisco notifies students after employee falls prey to phishing scam
The City College of San Francisco is notifying some students after an employee responded to a phishing scam. As the college explains in a letter from Jay Field, Chief Technology Officer: On April 15, 2016, we learned that an employee had responded to a “phishing” email thinking that it was a legitimate request. When we learned of this, we…