Elena Chong reports on a case in Singapore where a police officer in the Clementi police division of the Singapore Police has been sentenced to jail for soliciting a colleague who then accessed the the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s computer system to check on a friend’s former boyfriend. Rishinder, a Singapore permanent resident, was yesterday sentenced…
Category: Breach Incidents
Noodles & Company Probes Breach Claims
Brian Krebs reports: Noodles & Company, a fast-casual restaurant chain with more than 500 stores in 35 U.S. states, says it has hired outside investigators to probe reports of a credit card breach at some locations. Over the past weekend, KrebsOnSecurity began hearing from sources at multiple financial institutions who said they’d detected a pattern of fraudulent…
Comanche County Memorial Hospital notifies 2,199 patients after contractor’s email gaffe
On April 25, Comanche County Hospital Authority notified HHS that 2,199 patients were affected by an email incident. From their press release: Comanche County Memorial Hospital issues public notice of HIPAA Breach Lawton, OK (April 27, 2016) – Comanche County Memorial Hospital (CCMH) is committed to protecting the privacy of its patients and maintaining the highest…
More than 2,000 veterans had their PHI breached in April
Another site that reports on health data breaches tends to report on VA breaches in terms of percentage change from the previous month. DataBreaches.net does not do that because, frankly, there’s no consistent pattern or trend, and month-to-month comparisons don’t strike this blogger as particularly useful. Consider the stats from the last three months’ reports: February Summary:…
Was chatting about marijuana on TheTreesNetwork hazardous to your privacy?
In today’s installment of misconfigured databases, include more than 10 million chat messages from more than 44,000 users on TheTreesNetwork. Chris Vickery, security researcher at Kromtech, writes: I have information on two different breaches to share today. Coincidentally they both involve sites that show videos to their user base. The first has to do with TheTreesNetwork.com,…
El Dorado Hills accountant to notify clients after discovering malware on system
Lynn Talbot, Jr., CPA, CVA is notifying clients after discovering malware on his system. In a letter that will be going out to clients next week, Talbot explains: On April 19, 2016, I detected suspicious activity on a work computer. I immediately took the computer off-line and contacted our IT consultant. The consultant has confirmed unusual…