On April 27, the Technical College of the Lowcountry in Beaufort, South Carolina, disclosed a breach involving high school students who had enrolled in a program they offered. Here is their first statement: On Thursday, April 23, 2015, the Technical College of the Lowcountry was notified of a possible data security incident involving the online publication…
Category: Exposure
TN: Holston Valley patient info found in Bristol recycling bin; nurse resigns over error
Hank Hayes reports: Wellmont Health System has sent letters to patients whose protected health information was recently discovered at Steele Creek Park in Bristol, Wellmont said in a prepared release issued on Wednesday. Wellmont said the patients “were likely not” identity theft victims. Read more on Times News. Wellmont issued the following statement: Wellmont Health…
IN: TRAI betrays privacy
The editors of the Deccan Chronicle in India address a breach noted earlier this week: In an appalling act of recklessness, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has compromised the privacy of over a million Internet users of the country by publishing online all the responses of their consultation paper on Net neutrality. Either the bureaucrats running…
More than 1 year after breach, data show up for sale on darknet
Brian Krebs reports that he received a tip about physicians’ data up for sale on a darknet marketplace called AlphaBay One of the databases for sale was a large text file called, “Tenet Health Hilton Medical Center” that contained the name, address, Social Security number and other sensitive information on dozens of physicians across the country. Did you ever…
LabMD moves to disqualify Commissioner Ramirez from administrative case; also moves to dismiss entire case
As the administrative hearing in FTC v. LabMD gets closer to resuming, there have been two developments to note. The first is that LabMD has moved to disqualify Commissioner Edith Ramirez, alleging that she has been “irrevocably tainted and compromised” by her involvement in the FTC’s response to the House Oversight Committee’s investigation of Tiversa. I do not…
MASSIVE FAIL: Indian gov DOXXES net neutrality campaigners; Gets DDoSed by @opindia_revenge in response.
Alexander J. Martin reports: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has dumped more than a million Indian netizens’ traceable personal details online, after it decided to publish, in full, the emails it received as part of its consultation paper about net neutrality. Obviously deeply convinced by last week’s arguments for transparency in internet governance, the Telecom Regulatory…