On October 16, Millers Mutual Group started notifying claimants whose information was stored on Systema Software’s server. The leak was first disclosed by DataBreaches.net in September, and Millers says they first learned of it on September 23, apparently weeks after other entities were notified by the vendor or Chris Vickery, who had discovered the leak. In a letter to…
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Irish Water ‘tightened controls’ after customer bank details were sent to the wrong people
The Journal reports: Irish Water belatedly instigated a ‘tightening of controls’ and implemented extra training for staff in the wake of customer data breaches at the company earlier this year. The information has come to light as a result of records released under freedom of information. The incidents occurred in March 2015 and involved up to 15 customers’…
Sony’s Settlement With Employees Over Hacked Data Worth More Than $5.5 Million
The Hollywood Reporter reports: Sony Pictures will be paying somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.5 million to $8 million to resolve a class action lawsuit over a large hack attack last winter that left the personal information of employees and ex-employees vulnerable. The details of the settlement were revealed in court papers on Monday night….
Ark., Md. Providers Notify Patients of Health Data Breaches
HealthITSecurity has reports on two HIPAA breaches reported to HHS. The first involved two employees of Baptist Health and Arkansas Health Group taking information on 6,500 patients with them to their new employer, Bray Family Health. The second incident involved a laptop missing from Johns Hopkins Medicine that contained health information for 571 cancer patients and 267 study participants. You can…
Gowdy appears to accidentally release CIA source’s name
Josh Gerstein reports: House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy appears to have accidentally released the name of a CIA source in the midst of a back-and-forth with Democrats about how sensitive the information was and whether its presence in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account constituted a security breach. Gowdy’s aides blamed…
Veteran says financial services company USAA failed to warn her of ID theft
Paul Woolverton reports: Retired Army Maj. Veronica Carter is furious with the USAA. She says the financial services company failed to warn her when an identity thief or thieves called three times over the past month to try to persuade a customer service representative to withdraw money from her account. On Oct. 6, someone made…