Nick Krueger reports: The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office has been notified after more than 800 Charleston County employees were part of a data breach because of an inadvertent email which was sent out by a county Human Resources employee. According to county spokesman Shawn Smetana, that email contained the names, dates of birth, social security…
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Data breach exposes personal information of 18,500 Bismarck Public Schools students
Blair Emerson reports: About 18,500 current and former Bismarck Public Schools students had some of their personal information exposed in a data breach at a company that provides a universal screening tool to the district. Okay, we can add them to any list. From looking at Bismarck’s August 12 parent letter, posted on their web…
SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp.
Brian Krebs has a follow-up to a previously reported vulnerability that exposed almost 900 million mortgage title-related documents: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating a security failure on the Web site of real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. that exposed more than 885 million personal and financial records tied…
NV: Renown Health warns lost thumb drive could put some patient information at risk
James DeHaven reports: Northern Nevada’s largest health care provider is still looking for a thumb drive containing patient information that first went missing in June. Renown Health on Friday announced it was mailing letters to patients whose information may have been stored on the data storage device. An unnamed Renown employee first reported the thumb…
Do your office staff and answering service know how to respond to a notification?
Over the years, there have been numerous occasions when I’ve called a doctor’s office or service to alert them to a data leak or HIPAA breach. In some cases, I’ve reached office staff. In other cases, it may be an answering service. All too often, however, most of the people who have taken my calls…
Delta Airlines sues [24]7.ai over 2017 data breach
Those with good memories may recall that in April, 2018, we learned that hundreds of thousands of customers of Delta Airlines, Sears, Kmart, and BestBuy were impacted by a breach involving [24]7.ai – a California headquartered service that provides online customer chat for their clients’ web sites. The breach occurred between September 26 and October…