A press release dated July 6 – admirably prominently posted from the medical center’s home page – says: TROY, Ala. (July 6, 2011) – Troy Regional Medical Center (TRMC) has notified certain patients of a data theft incident involving unauthorized access and removal of some of their personal information. TRMC is conducting a comprehensive investigation…
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Computer-Hacking Group Targets Apple In Latest Attack
Well, by now it may not be their latest attack, as the news report by Ian Sherr was published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal: A group of computer hackers on Sunday posted a document it claimed contains usernames and passwords for an Apple Inc. server, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised…
Indiana Attorney General reaches settlement with WellPoint in consumer data breach
Health insurer WellPoint Inc. will pay the State a $100,000 settlement over a data breach where the personal information of thousands of WellPoint customers was potentially accessible via the Internet. The settlement resolves a lawsuit that Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office filed under a new data-breach notification law passed in 2009. “This case should…
Oops: Dolphin Reveals Email Addresses of Beta Testers
From the Dolphin Support blog: Yesterday we sent an e-mail to a number of consumers who are our beta testers for Dolphin Browser HD v6.0. This time is different from our monthly newsletter in that we decided to send out the emails separately by using another email service. Through an unfortunate error by one of…
[corrected] Missing Plymouth State University backup drive contained Social Security Numbers of 1,059 students
On May 18, Plymouth State University noticed that an external hard drive that they used for backup purposes was missing. One of the files on the drive was a spreadsheet that contained the names and Social Security numbers of 1,059 students enrolled in the teacher education and certification program between 2005 and 2010. As the…
(follow-up) JetBlue notification letter indicates no evidence that any employee data accessed
As reported previously on this blog, JetBlue had a security breach involving the insertion of malware on their system. Last week, the airline notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office about the incident. Their letter was somewhat imprecise about when they were informed of the problem by a federal law enforcement agency, saying only that “Earlier…