Maybe they should change their advertising to “We’ll leave the light on, and your details outside?” Tyler Berg reports: A guest at a St. Paul Motel 6 said she came across boxes full of personal information laying next to a dumpster. Leyla Dupey said she was walking her dog last week outside the motel when she…
Category: U.S.
U.S. decides against publicly blaming China for OPM hack
Ellen Nakashima reports: Months after the discovery of a massive breach of U.S. government personnel records, the Obama administration has decided against publicly blaming China for the intrusion in part out of reluctance to reveal the evidence that American investigators have assembled, U.S. officials said. The administration also appears to have refrained from any direct…
KY: Metro employees’ personal information at risk after breach at cloud vendor (updated)
No. This is not yet another data breach in the healthcare sector. What it appears to be is a surprisingly late notification in a previously known breach, though. WLKY reports that the personal information of potentially more than 10,000 Louisville metro workers who have Concentra health insurance may have been impacted by the Medical Informatics Engineering…
MA: Some Amherst online billpayers warned about potential data breach
Diane Lederman reports: The town is notifying some residents who pay bills online that some data they provided to the town might have been taken, said Town Finance Director Sandy Pooler. He said the town was notified June 30 about a possible compromise. He said so far “nobody has been adversely affected. We are in the process of figuring…
FTC Takes Action Against LifeLock for Alleged Violations of 2010 Order
Whoa. The Federal Trade Commission today asserted that LifeLock violated a 2010 settlement with the agency and 35 state attorneys general by continuing to make deceptive claims about its identity theft protection services, and by failing to take steps required to protect its users’ data. In documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of…
Army National Guard Infosec Failure Exposed 850K Service Members’ Info
Earlier this month, this site noted a security failure involving an Army National Guard data transfer. Today, Tara Seals reports that the number impacted is 850,000: The Army National Guard has exposed the personal information of more than 850,000 current and former members, by improperly handling a data transfer. The servicemen and women may have…