Paige Fieldsted reports: The personal information of hundreds of international students at BYU was inadvertently released by email Monday. The message was sent by a staff member in the University Advisement Center who was sending out a notice of a career workshop, but a complete list of students’ names, email addresses, phone numbers and student…
Category: Breach Incidents
HHS settles HIPAA case with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee for $1.5 million following theft of 57 computer drives
From HHS: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $1,500,000 to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules, Leon Rodriguez, Director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced today. BCBST…
Impairment Resources files for bankruptcy after data breach
It seems like a breach that I never mentioned on this blog was the downfall of a firm. In December, 2011, Impairment Resources, LLC was the victim of a burglary. They reported the incident and I had included it on DataLossDB.org, but didn’t think much of it as there was nothing wildly unusual in their reports to suggest…
NZ: Privacy breach on 9000 ACC claims (updated)
Phil Kitchin reports on a breach involving sensitive personal information in New Zealand: Private details of more than 9000 ACC claims – some featuring well-known people – have been emailed to a person who should not have received them, in what is being described as one of the worst privacy breaches in New Zealand history….
Symantec Admit Recent Anonymous Leak is Authentic
This week was a big for anonymous with lots of attacks taking place as well as the leak of the complete 2006 source code for Symantecs norton antivirus that happened in the name of the most recent arrested hacktivist. Today, 10, 3, 2012 Symantec have released a statement on the website on the page that is…
A Further 390+ Sites Hacked & Defaced For #OpFreePalestine
content/images/gallery/pca/hacked-by-pak-cyber-pyrates-xxx_death_xxx.png PAK Cyber Pytres hackers No Swear and Dark Sniper have Just minutes ago released a futher list of 390+ Websites that have been hacked and left defaced in the name of the well known Operation that was dubbed #OpFreePalestine. It was not long ago today that we posted another lot of sites that had…