Amber Friend reports: Reports of unauthorized monitoring of several Garden City Community College employees’ emails prompted the college to open an investigation Friday, an action that included starting the probe with the college’s information technology department and placing its three-man staff on suspension with pay until further notice. The media report names the suspended staff…
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Southern College of Optometry notifies students whose loan information was hacked
The Southern College of Optometry (SCO) has notified an undisclosed number of students whose student loan information and Social Security numbers were in an employee email account that was hacked. In its notification letter of July 16, SCO President Lewis N. Reich, OD, PhD writes: As stated in our email of June 15, 2018, we discovered…
LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses
Brian Krebs reports: Identity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that’s built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers. The company just fixed a vulnerability on its site that allowed anyone with…
SC: Roper Hospital patient records in courier’s stolen car
Rebecca Collett reports that a courier for Roper Hospital had a suitcase with patient records stolen on July 3 while she was paying for gas: The medical records were in a locked suitcase in the car, according to Andy Lyons, the Director of Corporate Communications for the hospital system. The records belong to 133 patients…
MO: Blue Springs Family Care notifies 44,979 patients after ransomware attack
I read an article recently that cited a study by Cryptonite claiming that according to HHS’s breach tool, it appears that ransomware attacks are down in the healthcare sector this year. My mental response was just to shrug because I’ve already declared time of death on using HHS’s breach tool as any kind of serious…
OR: City of Medford notifies 1,842 after malware attack
Kimberly Kolliner reports: It’s estimated 1,842 Medford residents may have been impacted by a City of Medford data breach. The city’s online utility billing service that was infected with malware. The security breaches happened between February 18th through March 14th and March 29th through April 16th. June 5th is when forensic investigators determined the breach…