White and Bright Family Dental in Fresno is notifying patients of a recent hack. In a letter dated February 16 to patients, they write: On January 30, 2018, a business computer server containing your protected health information was accessed by cyber criminals. We immediately notified the Fresno Police Department, so that identification and prosecution of…
Category: Breach Incidents
PA: Purchase Line SD officials discuss cybersecurity after incident
Patrick Cloonan reports: Officials in the Purchase Line School District are looking to avoid a repeat of a recent case of theft by deception that targeted the district’s emails and approximately 100 of its vendors. […] Their move is the latest in a series of steps taken since Jan. 31 when, as described by Superintendent…
12 years in prison for man who hacked Nasdaq, helped swipe 160M credit cards
Cyrus Farivar reports: Two Russian men convicted of their involvement in a massive hack of the Nasdaq stock exchange, Citibank, and other major companies have been given hefty sentences. The two men, Vladimir Drinkman and Dmitriy Smilianets, pleaded guilty in 2015. On Wednesday, Drinkman was sentenced to 144 months, while Smilianets was given 51 months. Read more…
Triple-S Advantage notifies 36,305 Puerto Rican members of mailing error involving their information
If you were an entity that wound up as part of a $3.5 million settlement with HHS in 2015, you probably wouldn’t want to be reporting yet another breach to HHS now, particularly if your area was still trying to recover from a major hurricane and crisis. Yet that’s the situation Triple-S Advantage, an independent licensee…
In Congressional Testimony, EPIC to Call For Comprehensive Privacy Law, New Privacy Agency
From EPIC.org: EPIC President Marc Rotenberg will testify before the House Financial Services Committee this week. Rotenberg will say that “Data breaches pose enormous challenges to the security of American families, as well as our country’s national security.” EPIC will call for comprehensive data protection legislation and the creation of a federal data protection agency….
UK: ICO releases Q3 data security incident trends
The Information Commissioner’s Office has released Q3 statistics on data protection incidents reported to their office. Not surprisingly, reports were up. Some of their key statistics: Central government sector reports rose by 178% from Q2 (from 9 to 25). Incidents involving a failure to redact data increased from 1 to 11. Education sector incidents rose by…