Elizabeth DiCesare reports: While preparing to apply to Canada’s police forces, Bob Baumgartner, a Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) graduate, decided to do a Google search of himself, and found more than he was expecting. After typing in his old e-mail address, Baumgartner found a list of 297 former WLU students that included their personal contact…
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Za: PayGate confirms credit breach
Bianca Capazorio reports on a payment processor breach in South Africa that occurred back in August but is first being acknowledged this week by the firm, PayGate: The Payments Association of SA (Pasa) said on Friday that “the card data emanating from these online transactions seems to have been stored in a manner which does…
Gulf Coast Health Care Services network incident affected 13,000 patients, but what happened?
Gulf Coast Health Care Services in Florida suffered a network compromise on August 17 that reportedly affected 13,000 patients. The incident was reported to HHS as “Theft, UnauthorizedAccess/Disclosure, Hacking/IT Incident”,Network Server. I really wish HHS would refine their response categories. And no, no media coverage to be found at this point and no notice on…
Kentucky neurologist notifies patients after device lost
Alexander J. Tikhtman, M.D. of Kentucky notified HHS that 2,376 patients had information on a device lost on August 15th. Once again, I can find no substitute notice nor any statement on the web site of Baptist Physicians Lexington. Dr. Tikhtman is associated with Baptist Neurology Consultants. If anyone spots one, please let me know…
Update on Women & Infants Hospital breach
The breach involving missing backup tapes at Women & Infants Hospital was reported to HHS as affecting 14,004 patients.
How many breaches did GoTickets.com have?
Back on June 20, 2012, GoTickets.com notified the California Attorney General’s Office of a breach that reportedly occurred between May 22 and May 30, 2012. In their sample notification letter submitted to the state, they wrote: We were recently made aware that certain payment card information used on our www.gotickets.com website may have been exposed. We…