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Category: Breach Incidents
CO: Aurora Water announces data breach involving Click2Gov payment system
Author: Janet Oravetz reports: Personal information of some Aurora Water customers, such as names, card numbers and expiration dates, may have been compromised through a data breach, according to the city’s water department. The department made an announcement about the security incident on Monday and said customers who used the Click2Gov payment system to make one-time…
Vistaprint Logomaker files viewable due to insecure Amazon s3 bucket
Vistaprint. Everyone knows it and probably almost everyone knows somebody who has used the firm to design or print business cards, brochures, or other business-related stationery or marketing-related materials. Recently I was on Vistaprint’s site to create a new logo for ctrlbox.com. To my unpleasant surprise, I discovered that the preview of my logo displayed…
Georgia Supreme Court resuscitates patient lawsuit against Athens Orthopedic Clinic
The Georgia Supreme Court has breathed new life into a lawsuit by patients of Athens Orthopedic Clinic (AOC) whose data were stolen by thedarkoverlord in 2016. In a decision issued this week, the judges unanimously reversed the Court of Appeals’ dismissal of the lawsuit, vacated other parts of their ruling, and remanded the case. At…
AL: DCH Health System patients file federal suit over ransomware attack
Howard Koplowitz reports: Four patients of the DCH Health System filed a federal class-action lawsuit Monday alleging that the three west Alabama Hospitals violated health information privacy laws and disrupted their medical care when the system was hit with a ransomware attack in October. The four patients accuse the health system of negligence, invasion of…
SonyLIV Fixes leaky Elasticsearch in record time
Once again, a service owned and control by a division of official Sony Entertainment has slipped up. This time, their error exposed a elasticsearch server leaking log entries that feed into a third-party tool. Sony is no stranger when it comes to reports of poor infosecurity and hacking incidents, but it is not often we…