Another day, another leak. It appears a security researcher who searches for leaks on public FTP servers has uncovered another leak involving personal information. This time, it’s the personal information of 11,771 individuals who applied to the State of Nevada Medical Marijuana Program to become an agent for a medical marijuana establishment (MME). The researcher…
Category: Exposure
GA: Forsyth County investigates information breach
Mark Woolsey reports: A security breach at the Forsyth County Tax Commissioners office led to the inadvertent release Social Security numbers of nearly 20,000 residents. Tax commissioner Matthew Ledbetter said in a letter to those impacted that the information was mistakenly included in a data file downloaded by two outside parties. Both had authorized access…
Frederick County Public Schools had brief internal data breach last year
Brandi Bottalico reports that Frederick County Public Schools, currently embroiled in a finger-pointing exercise with the state as to who’s responsible for a recently discovered breach involving former students’ information, had another breach last year. In January 2015, employees’ W-2 statements were viewable by other employees. The breach appeared to be strictly internal and due to human…
Data breach affects almost 400,000 Community Health Plan members (UPDATE2)
Bob Young reports: Almost 400,000 current and former members of the Community Health Plan of Washington have had personal information, including Social Security numbers, exposed in a data breach. The nonprofit, which provides health insurance through Medicaid in Washington, is sending letters to 381,534 individuals Wednesday notifying them of the invasion and steps they can…
Texas firm exposed fetal and patient ultrasounds (updated)
Corpus Christi-based 4D Sound Diagnostics (3d4dinfo.com and Bump 2 Baby & Beyond) provides elective ultrasounds for women or couples who want an image of their baby. The firm, owned by technologist Michael Rodriguez and formerly based in Louisiana, also provides ultrasound services in doctors’ offices. While many of their clients appear to be in the former group (fetal ultrasounds that…
Private Numbers Exposed – FLOW Customers’ Personal Information Inadvertently Released In Yellow Pages
Jovan Johnson reports: The full scale has not been revealed, but telecommunications company FLOW is scrambling to explain to perhaps hundreds of customers why their telephone numbers and other data that have been private, in some cases for almost a quarter of a century, have been released in the 2017 Yellow Pages telephone directory. Among…