Choice Hotels has disclosed a multi-year situation that impacted some Safari browser users. From their notice on their website: WHAT HAPPENED? Choice recently learned of a technical issue that only occurred in a specific circumstance. The cause of the issue has been addressed. The issue involved information entered by a visitor to Choice’s website being…
Category: Breach Incidents
More details emerge on Magellan Healthcare breach
Some breaches dribble out over time, especially when they involve a business associate. This time, it’s Magellan Healthcare, Inc. On September 17, Magellan Healthcare, Inc. notified HHS after an employee of Magellan Rx Management fell prey to a phishing attack in May that was discovered July 5. Analysis of the contents of the employee’s email…
City of Dothan to hire attorneys in credit card data breach
WRGX reports: Dothan commissioners will likely hire attorneys to represent the city in a data breach that potentially affected several thousand of its utilities customers. “A resolution will be presented to the Commissioners regarding an authorization for engaging the law firm of Mullen Coughlin LLC. to represent the City of Dothan,” spokesperson Vincent Vincent said…
College Station stops online utility payments while investigating Click2Gov data breach
KBTX reports that College Station, Texas is warning utility customers about a potential Click2Gov breach. Read more on KBTX.
Unprotected patient data in the Internet – a review 60 days later, or The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
A report by Greenbone Networks in September about the leak of medical images online made waves — including spurring Senator Warner to ask HHS OCR what it was doing in response to the report. Today, Greenbone reached out to a number of sites to alert us all to an update to their report. From their…
Companies That Experience a Data Breach Will Underperform the Stock Market Over the Long Run
Nicole Lindsey reports: Data breaches at the world’s largest corporations are becoming a commonplace affair, but are investors on Wall Street really paying attention? A new study from UK-based pro-consumer website Comparitech looked at the recent stock market performance of 28 different companies that recently suffered a massive data breach of some kind (defined as…