Sam Clancy reports: A 29-year-old woman who worked for a St. Louis County nursing home pleaded guilty to stealing credit card numbers from the home’s residents. Shaniece Borney pleaded guilty to a credit card fraud scheme while she worked at NHC Health Care in 2016 and 2017, a press release from the Department of Justice…
Category: Breach Incidents
Here’s what you didn’t know about health data breaches in February
Protenus, Inc. has released its February Breach Barometer, with its analysis of 39 health data incidents compiled for them by this site. As I have done in companion posts to their previous reports, I am providing a list, below, of the incidents upon which their report is based. Where additional details are available, I have…
‘Mera Aadhaar Meri Pehchan Filetype pdf’ Scare! UIDAI Warns, Precautions Must While Sharing Aadhaar Number Online
The media in India seem to have fueled anxiety over Aadhaar security when the problem wasn’t with the security of the Aadhaar database itself. Stories sounding alarms about how Aadhaar data are easily found on third party sites are only confusing a lot of people, it seems. Yes, the data should not be exposed like…
Did Columbia Falls Schools treat an extortion payment made to TheDarkOverlord as a dirty little secret?
Update of March 12: After this story appeared on March 9, DataBreaches.net received a call from Superintendent Bradshaw, who had been out of town when my email had arrived. This story has been updated – and corrected occasionally – to incorporate his answers. If students are at risk of significant emotional damage because highly sensitive…
Blaming the vendor when a security breach occurs
Mitch Tulloch writes: The blame game is something all of us practice from time to time, when something goes badly wrong we don’t want to get caught holding the bag. And when we’re accused of being the culprit, our natural reaction is to raise our hands and say, “Not me!” So it’s not unusual when…
Oregon lawmakers give data breach victims more protection
KTVZ reports: Six months after the data breach of credit reporting agency Equifax exposed the private information of 145 million Americans, the Oregon House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed Senate Bill 1551, expanding consumer protections for Oregonians. The legislation would institute a number of key provisions including requirements that breaches be reported more quickly and consumers…