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…
Category: U.S.
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…
NJ Settles Charges Against Business Associate Responsible for Virtua Medical Patient Data Breach: Vendor Owner Pays $200,000 and is Barred From Owning or Managing Any Business in NJ Again
One question that occasionally pops up is how often businesses go out of business after or due to a data breach. My answer to that is “not often,” but we do it occasionally. In some cases, the breach may just have been a final straw for an already shaky business. Yesterday, during a webinar with…
Private messages from 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for sale
Andrei Zakharov reports: Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users’ accounts. The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were attempting to sell, although there are reasons to be sceptical about that figure. Facebook said…
Virginia Hospital Must Answer for Snooping Employees’ Privacy Breach
From Bloomberg Law: A Virginia health-care system will have to answer claims that it is liable for its employees’ snooping into a patient’s confidential health information. A Virginia trial court shouldn’t have dismissed Lindsey Parker’s complaint alleging Carilion Healthcare Corp. and Carilion Clinic should be held liable for their employees’ wrongdoing, the Virginia Supreme Court…
Radisson Rewards confirms data breach
Mark Caswell reports: Radisson Hotel Group has confirmed that it has suffered a data breach on affecting “a small percentage of our Radisson Rewards members”. Business Traveller was alerted to the incident by one of our readers, who had received an email from Radisson confirming that his details had been compromised. Radisson says that it…