Another report we may not see on HHS’s public breach tool but that involves health information. This reads like it is a notification to employees based on the types of data involved, but it doesn’t actually say who the breach impacted. Overseas Service Corporation (“OSC”) announced today a phishing email incident that involved a small…
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Fastway Couriers Notifies Irish Data Protection Commission of a Hack
Ciara Plunkett reports: The Irish Data Protection Commission says it’s received a breach notification from Fastway Couriers. The customer data impacted includes: names, addresses, email accounts and phone numbers, but the company says nobody’s financial data was at risk. Read more on KFM. Updated March 13: NewsTalk has some more details: The company has confirmed…
Multi-state settlement in 2019 American Medical Collection Agency breach
New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced an agreement between a bipartisan coalition of 41 attorneys general from around the nation and the Westchester County debt collection agency Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, d/b/a American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), that resolves a multistate investigation into the company’s 2019 data breach. The breach exposed the personal information —…
Cyber attack causes systems outage at Molson Coors
Yesterday, WTMJ reported: Molson Coors was the target of a cyber attack, the company confirmed to WTMJ on Wednesday. The brewery experienced a “systems outage due to a cyber-security incident,” according to Adam Collins, the company’s chief communications and corporate affairs officer. While some outlets questioned whether the attack might be related to the Microsoft…
JP: Unauthorized access occurred in Urban Research; personal information of about 310,000 people leaked
Translation: Urban Research has announced that the official in the online store by the unauthorized access by a third party, personal information of 317,326 persons of all member there is a fear that has flowed out. The leaked information does not include credit card numbers, and no secondary damage such as unauthorized use has been…
UK: Solicitor caught dumping client files in the street
The SRA has fined a solicitor for dumping rubbish bags containing client information outside his office. Trevor Nicholas Senkatuka was the sole practitioner of the now-defunct firm, Windsor Croft Solicitors, in Essex. The local council fined him for fly-tipping on the pavement outside his office. Council workers took photographs of the bags which revealed that they contained private client information. “The public would…