Clifford Lee reports A technical glitch led to the personal details, including the residential address, of a single Singtel customer to be revealed to other customers when they logged-in to their My Singtel mobile application on Monday night (Feb 29), sparking fears that more data had been compromised. Read more on Today.
Category: Exposure
Update: Second arrest in Jackson State U. data breach (updated)
Jasmina Alston reports that a second student has now been arrested in connection with the theft – and creation of a searchable database of – 40,000 Jacksonville State University student and faculty data. According to the university, suspects obtained the data by using log in information for a management database used by an institutional office. This is still…
BJC HealthCare Accountable Care Organization Notifies Patients of Unencrypted Email
(Feb. 26, 2016, ST. LOUIS) – BJC HealthCare Accountable Care Organization (BJC ACO) has notified 2,393 patients that identifying information was sent to a participating medical practice through an unencrypted email. All affected patients have been offered identity theft protection free of charge. BJC ACO discovered on Dec. 30, 2015, that an email containing health information…
Some Time Warner Business Class customer data hacked and dumped by TeaMp0isoN
It looks like TeaMp0isoN’s been busy again. This time it’s the Time Warner Cable Business Class Managed Security Solutions portal that got hacked with the following defacement left as a message: The @TeaMp0sioN Twitter account announced the breach by Pseudo, Militis, Jimmy, and MLT on Sunday afternoon, followed shortly by a data dump consisting of 4,191 records containing…
Giants player Jason Pierre-Paul should lose his case against ESPN and reporter Adam Schefter, but will he?
I’ve been hoping some lawyer(s) would discuss the lawsuit filed by Jason Pierre-Paul (“JPP”) against ESPN and Adam Schefter because frankly, although I wasn’t happy that Schefter posted a medical record – and Schefter later acknowledged there’s an issue of sensitivity here – I can’t see how any lawsuit against the journalist could prevail because…….
Radiology office mistakenly reveals 603 mammogram patients’ names
I’m not a fan of postcard appointment reminders for patients, as they expose the fact that the named individual is a patient of a particular doctor or practice – and sometimes, that, in and of itself, reveals more than I would want to see revealed. But under HIPAA, postcard reminders are not barred, and patients…