The following is a press release: NASHVILLE, Tenn.May 22, 2020– The Little Clinic (TLC) announced today that patients could have had their protected health information (PHI) accessed due to a failure in TLC’s online appointment functionality. The Little Clinic made the discovery internally and found if a patient made an appointment and modified that appointment online,…
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Leesburg Woman Sentenced To 48 Months In Prison For Aggravated Identity Theft And Wire Fraud
There’s an update to an insider breach previously reported on this site. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida on May 19: Ocala, Florida – Senior U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Stacey Lavette Hendricks (49, Leesburg) to 48 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft and wire…
Popular teen app Wishbone hacked (again), 40 million users’ info being given away
We know that no security is perfect, but when a company collecting and storing teenagers’ data has repeated breaches, it’s cause for concern – and possible investigation by federal and state regulators. In 2017, we learned that the popular teen quiz app, Wishbone, had been “hacked.” According to reports at the time, hackers snagged 2.2…
Ohioans’ and Coloradans’ personal info exposed in pandemic unemployment data breaches
Two more states have reported breaches or issues with state portals to apply for pandemic-related unemployment benefits. In Ohio, Maggy McDonel reports: The personal information of Ohioans receiving pandemic unemployment assistance was recently exposed to a data breach, according to Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services. The information reportedly included names, Social Security numbers…
How secure is your child’s data in Virginia’s virtual classrooms?
Tom Nash or the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism reports: … As the pandemic forces Virginia’s 1.2 million public school students to trade classrooms for laptops and smartphones — if they have them — many educators, parents and privacy advocates are raising alarms across the state about children’s digital security. Lapses in online protections have…
ADT employee spied on customers for years through their security cameras, lawsuits claim
Ron Hurtibise reports: Hundreds of customers of ADT Security Services were spied on through security cameras installed inside and outside of their homes, two federal lawsuits filed Monday are claiming. ADT, headquartered in Boca Raton, “failed to provide rudimentary safeguards” to prevent an employee from gaining remote access to the customers’ cameras over a seven-year period,…