Paging HHS to Aisle 4…. Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree reports: What started as a routine purchase of a surplus county building has resulted in the discovery of thousands of medical records and allegations of theft. Jerseyville resident Edward Crone bought the property at 505 S. Main St. from the county on March 19 — more than a…
Category: Exposure
How Evil Hackers Can Cause Chaos At Horribly Vulnerable Car Parks
Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: There’s been growing interest in car hacking in recent years, inspired by researchers showing off exploits in real vehicles, tinkering with Teslas, and uncovering glaring vulnerabilities in third party kit. But criminal hackers could vex drivers in other ways, such as compromising internet-connected, easily hackable parking management systems, according to Spanish researcher Jose Guasch. At the Hack…
How to get yourself bad PR, Capital One edition
Betty Lin-Fisher reports: Louise Gunther of Fairlawn called recently to express her extreme frustration at how, despite six weeks of efforts to correct the problem, she was continuing to get what she felt was private information sent by email for someone else’s Capital One credit card. Gunther regularly checks the email for her domestic partner…
Meru Cabs was exposing customer data
I had missed this one, but DataBreachToday has a write-up about the exposure of Meru Cabs customer data due to logs from its mobile app not being secured. The exposed data in the logs “included customers’ personally identifiable information, including mobile numbers, email addresses, pickup and drop locations, masked credit-card numbers, payment notification logs, Meru booking…
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center sent 1,032 immunization records to state registry by mistake
Sherry Jacobson reports: UT Southwestern Medical Center accidentally transmitted the immunization records of about 1,000 patients to a confidential Texas registry used by physicians, health departments and school districts. Letters were sent last week to the UTSW patients involved, expressing regret that their vaccination information had been shared with ImmTrac, a statewide registry service used…
FL: Personal information, FBI report left in scrapped cop car
NBC2 reports: In less than ten minutes searching through Lee County scrap yards we found W2’s, bank statements, check books, Social Security numbers, date of birth and medical records. […] During our search we found numerous arrest reports and witness statements sitting in a retired Cape Coral Police squad car inside a scrap yard…. We found…