Cue Peter, Paul, and Mary singing, “When will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?” The best place to store your private keys of your production environment is probably NOT a public Amazon AWS S3 bucket. This is a top 500 “Cybersecurity” company btw. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/8Vu7mGpwox —…
Category: Breach Incidents
Hundreds left vulnerable to hackers after Johnson and Johnson data blunder
Aaron Rogan reports: The home addresses of hundreds of Irish people have been published online in a data breach by a pharmaceutical company. A cybersecurity expert said the error may leave people vulnerable to hackers as the company also shared email addresses that may be linked to other online accounts. As part of a promotion…
1 in 5 RNs have experienced a data breach at their organization
Julie Spitzer reports: Though 20 percent of RNs claim their facilities experienced a data breach, only a quarter of them have seen changes in the way their companies handle data security and patient privacy over the past year, according to a survey administered by the University of Phoenix College of Health Professions. The survey queried responses…
Claiming to have hacked Facebook, AnonCoders dump 37,000 logins
Update of January 18: After four requests, this site finally received a response from Facebook. According to a spokesperson: We were able to look into this and based on our review, there is no evidence that these credentials were exposed as a result of a Facebook breach, and we found that very few entries match…
DJO Global Notifies St. Rose Dominican Patients of Potential Breach of Personal Information
January 5, 2018 – DJO Global, Inc., a global provider of medical device solutions for musculoskeletal health, vascular health and pain management, announced today that on September 25, 2017 DJO discovered an incident involving the potential disclosure of certain personal information of individuals who received a DJO Global product from the Siena, San Martin or De…
UK: Record fines for company, senior staff and private investigators involved in illegal trade in personal information
A firm of loss adjusters has been fined £50,000 for unlawfully disclosing personal data which had been obtained illegally by senior employees and rogue private investigators. A director and a senior member of staff at Kent-based Woodgate and Clark Ltd have also been sentenced to record financial penalties, along with the private investigators involved. The…