Add San Diego-based Volcano Corporation to your list of firms reporting breaches involving e-mail attachment errors. Volcano Corporation reports that the error was made – and detected – on May 21, when a spreadsheet was inadvertently attached to an e-mail sent to some employees about their retirement account. The spreadsheet included employees’ names, email addresses…
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Akorn, Inc. notifies employees after email accounts compromised (UPDATED)
Add Akorn, Inc. to any list you maintain of organizations whose employee email accounts have been compromised. Through their external counsel, the niche generic pharmaceutical firm notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on June 4 that they had discovered that four employee e-mail accounts had been comprised over the prior two months, exposing personal…
Laptops stolen from National Seating and Mobility contained some patient information
National Seating and Mobility notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on June 12 of an incident that occurred on April 14, 2015 when two laptops, a smartphone, a backpack, and a briefcase were stolen from two employees’ locked work vans in Atlanta, Georgia. The incidents were immediately reported to the police and NSM was…
Rogue Equifax employee improperly accessed Rite Aid employees’ information
Pharmacy giant Rite Aid receives online paystubs, W-2s, and self-service applications from Equifax. In early March, Equifax notified Rite Aid that it had detected suspicious activity on some Rite Aid employee accounts. Equifax’s investigation resulted in a subsequent notification to Rite Aid on April 30 that an employee had misused their privileged access to reset…
None of us is safe: Major cybersecurity company hacked
Guess what: Even the best security companies can be hacked. That’s what Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said Wednesday when it announced its systems had been attacked, most likely by hackers working on behalf of a country. Read more on CNET.
Medical Informatics Engineering hacked; patient info involved
AP reports: A Fort Wayne medical software company is notifying patients of health care providers it serves that their private information might have been exposed when its networks were hacked, it said Wednesday. Medical Informatics Engineering said the attack on its main network and its NoMoreClipboard network began May 7 and wasn’t detected until May…