RadarOnline reports: Just as email-gate looked to be winding down, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned a person claiming to be a computer specialist has come forward with the stunning news that 32,000 emails from Hillary Clinton‘s private email account are up for sale. The price tag — a whopping $500,000! Promising to give the trove of the former Secretary of…
Category: Breach Incidents
ME: Data breach at Brunswick hotel possibly exposes cards of 2,600
Darren Fishell reports: Malware on a computer at the Brunswick Hotel and Tavern exposed names and credit card information for as many as 2,600 guests who stayed at the hotel between November 2014 and July 2015. The company managing the hotel notified customers of the breach in a letter dated Aug. 21 and posted to…
“Small” breach, big impact, redux
In November 2013, I blogged about the case of a privacy breach at Northern Inyo Hospital that was so devastating to the patient that she was going to move away. The breach was a willful insider breach that impacted a custody dispute. That same year, and unbeknownst to most people, there was a lawsuit filed over another insider…
FTC claims victory in Wyndham case; Appellate court upholds authority to enforce data security
Commissioner Julie Brill of the FTC has claimed victory in Wyndham’s appeal in the Third Circuit: Big news: FTC wins Third Circuit Wyndham appeal. Inadequate data security can be unfair under FTC Act & companies have adequate notice. — Julie Brill (@JulieBrillFTC) August 24, 2015 “Big news: FTC wins Third Circuit Wyndham appeal. Inadequate data…
50,000 AutoZone customers’ data hacked, exposed (update1)
AutoZone, a leading American retailer of auto parts, has reportedly been hacked by @JM511. This afternoon, JM511 announced the hack of the AutoZonePro.com site on Twitter. The linked paste included 49,967 customers’ details: billing addresses (street and city), email addresses, hashed passwords, telephone numbers, customers’ cities, and dates of birth. Although the passwords were hashed, JM511 provided the password…
How is this type of breach still happening in the Veterans Administration system?
I thought the Veterans Administration system had taken steps to ensure that people could not forward/send emails with protected health information outside the system. Yet an incident in Texas that was included in the VA’s July report to Congress shows that this still occurs. The VA’s summary of the incident for July 23rd notes: As…