Tana Ganeva reports: Democratic candidate for California Senate had her office broken into and sensitive voter information stolen, reports the Merced Sun Star. The burglary occurred on Election Day, as California voters headed to the polls. Read more on RawStory.
Category: U.S.
Bankers Life notified more than 566,000 after hack of employees’ email resulted in breach of PHI
The following is a Bankers Life announcement of a security incident that appears on HHS’s public breach tool under the name “CNO Financial Group, Inc.” According to the report to HHS, the breach affected 566,217 members protected health information. On October 25, Bankers Life1 notified certain customers about a data security issue. We take the…
Protenus releases its Q3 report on breaches involving health data
Protenus has released its Q3 report on breaches involving health data. As explained in their methodology, since its inception in 2016, Protenus reports have not confined themselves to just using data from HHS’s public breach tool (“The Wall of Shame”). Instead, the Protenus reports, using data compiled by DataBreaches.net, include data from incidents also involving…
Five Guys notifies employees of data breach
I won’t let this devolve into a debate on who makes the best hamburgers, but Five Guys Enterprises, LLC is notifying its employees about a data breach that affects them. According to a copy of its notification letter, submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office on November 2: On August 6, the firm discovered that…
No need for Russia to hack the House of Representatives if the House keeps leaving its doors open.
In early August, “Flash Gordon” (@s7nsins on Twitter) contacted me to say that he discovered a leak involving the House of Representatives. In light of all the talk about Russia trying to hack our elections, I decided that we probably should notify the House right away in case there was any kind of sensitive files…
Records lacking for ransomware attack on sheriff’s office
Molly Smith reports: Records of a ransomware attack on the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office are nonexistent, leaving little details available with the exception of an investigator’s testimony during a recent trial. HCSO investigator Marco Antonio Mandujano lost data obtained from an early 2017 dump of a sexual assault victim’s cellphone because the computer on which…