I had reported on Anonymous’s attacks on the RCMP in retaliation over the killing of activist James McIntyre earlier this week, but the story is gathering steam now. Yesterday, Adrian Humphrey of the National Post reported on the claimed hack, and it’s clear that the government is paying attention. Humphrey reported: To support their claim, members of…
Category: Breach Incidents
More than 1,000 employees in Anchorage veterans administration notified of breach due to employee error
On June 10, the Salt Lake City Regional Office of the Veterans Administration was notified that the The Wounded Warrior Program Office in Seattle had received a box from a veteran in Anchorage. The veteran had previously gone to the Anchorage office in April to request a copy of her VA file, and several weeks later, had returned to…
Almost 500 veterans notified of breach due to mailing label errors by medical supply vendor
A Veterans Administration incident report started with a report that 121 patients of the Charleston, SC facility received medical supplies from Medline Industries intended for 121 other patients. The error was the medical supplier’s packing error. It seems that in April, the supplier had installed a new automated system for applying shipping labels to packages, and the new…
Albuquerque veterans’ information exposed in human error breach
Errors continue to plague the Veterans Administration System. In its June report, the Albuquerque VA reported that a veteran returned a a list to the Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF-OIF) Office. He had found the list containing 73 veterans’ full names and full Social Security Numbers with appointment dates in paperwork he had picked up…
Law firm notifies clients after laptop stolen on trolley
The California law firm of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo is notifying clients after a personal laptop belonging to a member of the firm was stolen while the attorney was on the MTS Trolley in downtown San Diego on April 23. Since that time, the firm has been working with law enforcement but, to date, they…
Experian sued over Court Ventures-related breach
He beat me to it. 🙂 While I took a break to argue on Twitter about the hacked Jeep story in Wired, Brian Krebs was reporting on a class action lawsuit filed against Experian over the Court Ventures/U.S. InfoSearch data breach that was covered extensively on both his site and on this site. The lawsuit was…