It looks like I missed a breach report in October involving Hitachi Payment Systems, who initially denied any breach of their system. But now Nupur Anand reports that an interim forensics report has found that there was, in fact, a compromise involving malware: …. The breach is said to have occurred because there was malware…
Category: Breach Incidents
Aetna division notifying thousands of missing CD
Mike D. Smith reports: Aetna is notifying about 3,000 Texas policyholders affected by a “privacy incident” after a CD containing personal information never arrived at its intended destination. […] The incident occurred after an employee of Aetna Signature Administrators, a division of Aetna, mailed a CD on Sept. 6 to another employee for archiving purposes….
Command Marketing Innovations Reports Printing Error Impacting Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Members
The vendor involved in the recent breach reported on this site involving Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has now issued its own press release: GARFIELD, N.J., Nov. 23, 2016 — Command Marketing Innovations (CMI), a vendor performing print work for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ), announced today that on November 2, 2016, it…
Gorilla Glue Breach Gets More Sticky, 49GB Data Leaked By thedarkoverlord
Last week motherboard reported that hackers had claimed to breach a family owned and operated company, Gorilla Glue and that they had obtained over 500GB of documents. Today those hackers, thedarkoverlord tweeted “A widely held belief is that gorillas are unintelligent. We’re starting to think that they may be right.” which was accompanied by a…
Wentworth-Douglass reports insider breach at business associate, Ambucor (UPDATE5)
First it was Carolina Cardiology Consultants disclosing that 2500 of their patients had been affected by a breach at their business associate, Ambucor. Then it was Lebanon Cardiology Associates, PC (now known as WellSpan Cardiology) notifying HHS that 537 of their patients had been affected by Ambucor’s incident. Now it’s Wentworth-Douglass Hospital notifying 775 of their patients of the breach….
Hackers Team up & Hungarian Human Rights Foundation Gets Hacked
Update: Hungarian Human Rights Foundation has currently taken its website offline and has now been this way for almost 24hours. A hacker who recently has been making headlines has today teamed up with another well known hacker and as a result they have breached the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation and dumped its data online. The…