Jeremy Boysen, President of JB Autosports, Inc is notifying customers who used the subispeed.com and ft86speedfactory.com sites between August 1, 2015 through November 9, 2015, that their payment card data was intercepted during transmission and acquired by an unknown party at a Russian IP address. The breach allowed cyberattackers to intercept customer names, addresses, credit…
Category: Breach Incidents
NJ: Kean University Hacked Three Times in One Day, Algerian Group Claims Responsibility
It seems that in the week before Christmas, Kean University’s site was attacked and defaced on three occasions. Kathy Lloyd and Charles Kim reported: The Kean University website was hacked three times Sunday and into early Monday morning by what the college and its police department believe to be an Algerian group calling itself “Red Hell.”…
WI: Mental health patients’ and disability benefits applicants’ info on stolen laptop
Scott Trippe is a licensed psychologist in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, doing business as ST Psychotherapy. He’s also affiliated with Fox River Counseling, also in Oshkosh. On December 23, ST Psychotherapy reported to HHS that a stolen laptop contained information on 509 patients. There is no notice on either of Dr. Trippe’s web sites, but he apparently contacted…
WA: Behavior intervention specialist’s client records exposed in misconfigured database
On her web site, Patricia Mullen describes herself as a “behavior intervention specialist” and a former special education teacher. According to her site, she has worked in many school districts and agencies throughout the state of Washington consulting and training. Patricia is also a national trainer having presented to hundreds of foster parents, teachers, and providers…
Massachusetts sues lawyer-realtor for alleged violations of data storage, records disposal, and security breach laws
Katie Johnston of the Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has sued Duxbury lawyer and real estate broker Michael Haney after approximately 120 boxes with his clients’ real estate closing files were found “waterlogged and exposed to the elements” on a former client’s property in 2014. More than 1,200 Massachusetts residents are thought…
IU Health Arnett Hospital notified 30,000 of missing or stolen portable storage device
First the statement from Indiana University Health Arnett Hospital from December 31: IU Health Arnett is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of personal information provided to us. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On November 20, 2015, we learned that an unencrypted portable storage device was missing from…