Update1: TTCL is denying that they’ve had any breach. Update 2: Softpedia stands by its report that there was a breach, but has revised its estimate of the numbers. As one consequence, the headline for this post has been revised to delete the mention of 64,000. Original post: Catalin Cimpanu reports: Barely a day has passed since…
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Des Moines administrator mistakenly publishes student scores
Jason Clayworth reports: The individual test scores of Des Moines elementary students identified as part of a behavioral needs presentation were posted on a personal website by a school administrator, a likely violation of federal law, a state official said Monday. The color-coded data are three years old and highlighted the names of Lovejoy Elementary…
FL: Radiology Regional Center Notifies Patients After Paper Records Fell Out of Vendor’s Truck
Radiology Regional Center, PA, a physician-owned and managed diagnostic facility with nine locations in Florida, announced today that on December 19, 2015, Radiology Regional Center was informed by its records disposal vender (sic), Lee County Solid Waste Division (“Lee County”), that, on that same date, paper records containing the personal information of Radiology Regional Center’s…
22,000 dental patients’ info exposed on unsecured Eaglesoft FTP server
Eaglesoft software by Patterson Dental is a popular patient management system. But just as one security researcher had concerns about patient data security in Henry Schein’s Dentrix G5 software, he’s also had concerns about Eaglesoft, albeit for different reasons. He contacted this site on February 6 and notified CERT of his concern: Eaglesoft does seem to…
The second rule of incident response is to follow the plan
From the who-put-the-frying-pan-in-that-fire dept. Several weeks ago, DataBreaches.net received a complaint concerning a breach involving the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission in Maryland. It seems that a vendor’s 1099 tax statement had been sent to the wrong recipient. It was not a particularly unusual breach, but the 1099 had been sent as an unencrypted attachment to an email, so I read…
FL: Discarded medical records found unsecured at public landfill
Trevor Pettiford reports that discarded medical records were found unsecured at a county landfill facility in St. Petersburg, Florida. The records, complete with names, addresses, and family histories, were discovered by a man dumping bulk trash at the Pinellas County Solid Waste facility at 3095 114th Avenue North in St. Petersburg. They apparently came from the…