So that breach in February affecting Pennsylvania teachers affected approximately 360,000 current and former teachers. A 30-minute exposure leads to so much cost and anxiety. Ouch.
Category: U.S.
Southeast Clinical Pathology Laboratories Notifies Patients of Stolen Laptop
From the notice on their web site: March 21, 2018 – Clinical Pathology Laboratories Southeast, Inc. (“CPLSE”) has become aware of a data security incident that may have involved the personal and protected health information of its patients and their payment guarantors. On September 20, 2017, a laptop issued to a CPLSE employee was stolen….
Atlanta city government systems down due to ransomware attack [Updated]
Sean Gallagher reports: The city of Atlanta government has apparently become the victim of a ransomware attack. The city’s official Twitter account announced that the city government “is currently experiencing outages on various customer facing applications, including some that customers may use to pay bills or access court-related information.” According to a report from Atlanta…
ID: School district reports inadvertent disclosure
This item by Dr. Michael Garrett that appeared in the Clearwater Tribune appears to concern Joint School District #171 in Idaho. At approximately 7:35 a.m. on March 19, a supervisor brought to my attention that an employee had discovered personal employee information on the district website. The information was verified in a payroll report which inadvertently…
San Diego City Attorney announces lawsuit against Experian over massive data breach
At first I thought the headline had a typo and that they meant to name Equifax, but they do, indeed, mean Experian. This suit goes back to an incident previously covered on this site that involved Experian acquiring a company, Court Ventures, that had access to another company’s, InfoSearch’s database…. and a bad actor named…
CareMeridian notifies patients after disk goes missing in the mail
The following press release is basically identical to one provided yesterday by Georgia MENTOR. Neither Georgia MENTOR nor CareMeridian name the software provider who mailed them a disk with unencrypted documents that appears to have been lost in the mail. CareMeridian, LLC is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the…