John Shirek reports: After a major data breach exposed more than six million voters’ personal information, Georgia’s secretary of state says the state will offer free credit monitoring and restoration to those affected. Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp said the free credit monitoring should help reassure voters. Read more on 11Alive.
Category: Exposure
Anonymous claims to leak Paris climate officials’ data (UPDATED)
Cory Bennett reports: The hacker group Anonymous claims to have released the personal log-in details of roughly 1,415 officials at the United Nations climate conference in Paris. The release was apparently done to protest the recent detention of activists during a climate march in Paris on Sunday. Over 200 people were arrested after clashing with…
After asking bank for $3 million ransom, hacker dumps massive customer financial database
Kevin Collier reports that “Hacker Buba,” the individual who allegedly hacked InvestBank in the UAE, has made good on his threat to dump customer bank data if the bank didn’t pay his extortion demand. The means by which that information was posted is striking. Hacker Buba initially tweeted from accounts like @investbank_2, though those were…
Cottage Health Notifying 11,000 Patients Whose Records Were Exposed
Tom Bolton reports that Cottage Health, which suffered a HIPAA breach in 2013 due to a vendor error (by InSync) that exposed over 50,000 patients‘ information, has suffered another exposure breach: Cottage Health’s efforts to protect the confidentiality of hospital patient records suffered a setback earlier this fall when one of its computer servers was found to be…
OH: Thousands Of Medical Records Containing Confidential Info Found In Dumpster
Maureen Kocot reports: A good Samaritan says he was surprised when he discovered thousands of documents marked confidential in a dumpster. 10TV examined the documents and found medical records containing patients’ social security numbers, dates of birth, as well as detailed information about medical conditions and prescriptions. […] The Ohio Medical Board says it has…
IL: Mailing error by contractor discloses ‘limited’ personal info of 3,000 Centegra patients
Stephen DiBenedetto reports: Medical bills detailing “limited” personal information of 3,000 Centegra Health System patients recently were sent to the wrong addresses because of a mailroom error at a third-party contractor, a Centegra spokeswoman said. The mailing error happened Nov. 2 at MedAssets, a Georgia-based vendor Centegra contracts, during routine maintenance. A setting on automatic…