John Turk reports: Pontiac-based OaklandFamily Services, a community outreach organization, is investigating a security breach that could have affected 16,000 clients in the area. An unknown person gained access to the email account of an employee in July, which resulted in the potential viewing of protected health information. Read more on Daily Tribune. The full text…
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LA: Former employee sued for allegedly breaching non-compete clause, stealing proprietary information
Kyle Barnett reports on another lawsuit claiming a former employee stole proprietary information: A financial services company is suing a former employee it claims breached a non-compete clause by stealing client lists and targeting clients after he joined a similar firm. Business Capital Risk Control Services LLC filed suit against Carlos Avila Martinez in the…
DoD Issues Interim Rule For Contractors on Incident Reporting and Cloud Computing Services
Joe Lazzarotti writes: Government contractors have a wide range of unique challenges (find out more about these here), not the least of which is data security. A good example is the interim rule the Department of Defense (DoD) issued last month that implements sections of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2013 and…
Ex-president of GOP media company gets probation, fine for hacking
Randy Ludlow reports: The former president of a prominent Republican political-advertising firm received no prison time on Wednesday for three charges stemming from his dismissal. Nicholas P. Everhart, formerly of Strategy Group for Media, was fined $2,800 and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service by Delaware County Common Pleas Judge David Gormley. He…
What did CSU do to verify vendors’ data security – and what might FTC do?
When California State University decided to purchase a We End Violence program, Agent of Change, they reportedly did consider data security. The Press-Telegram reports: Laurie Weidner, spokeswoman for the Chancellor’s Office, said CSU has not terminated its relationship with We End Violence, which administered the training program called Agent of Change. The vendor was one of…
More TransformPOS clients possibly affected by security incident? (updated)
Here we go….? On Sept. 1, this blog noted a breach involving a TransformPOS client in Illinois. The client, Village Pizza & Pub, says they learned of the breach on July 27th. Now there may be other, possibly related breach reports in Wisconsin. Negassi Tesfamichael of The Daily Cardinal (a U. Wisconsin-Madison student publication) reports: The UW-Madison Police Department…