TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Dental Center of Northwest Ohio (the “Dental Center”) is providing notice to current and former patients and employees of a recent incident involving personal information. To date, the Dental Center has not received any reports that personal information has been misused as a result of this incident. On or about September 1, 2018, the…
Category: Malware
North Korea defector hack: Personal data of almost 1,000 leaked
BBC reports: Almost 1,000 North Korean defectors have had their personal data leaked after a computer at a South Korean resettlement centre was hacked, the unification ministry said. A personal computer at the state-run centre was found to have been “infected with a malicious code”. The ministry said this is thought to be the first…
BevMo notifying thousands of customers after malware compromise of ecommerce site
From their template notification, submitted to the California Attorney General’s Office by Beverages & More (dba “BevMo”): Notice of Data BreachBevMo recently learned of a data incident from the ecommerce service provider that operates our website at www.bevmo.com. This incident may have affected certain customers’ payment card numbers and other information entered on the BevMo…
California Department of Consumer Affairs suffers malware attack
Vincent Moleski reports: The California Department of Consumer Affairs suffered a malware attack Wednesday morning, affecting workstations and disrupting computer networks. Veronica Harms, the department’s deputy director, said in a prepared statement that all services to the public remained open, but the department had shut down some of its computer information network to protect electronic…
Caribou Coffee Customer Data Exposed In POS Security Breach
A breach involving coffee customer data at Caribou Coffee stores throughout the country. A notice on their web site explains: Data Security Notice Dear Valued Guests: We want to be in touch with you regarding a recent incident that may have involved access to your payment card information. What Happened On November 28, 2018, we…
LifeBridge sued over 2016 breach
Remember the LifeBridge malware incident disclosed earlier this year where more than 500,000 patients were notified of a malware incident that had been discovered in March, 2018? LifeBridge’s notification indicated that their investigation had revealed that an unauthorized person had accessed the server in 2016. It wasn’t totally clear to me at the time whether…