Remember that horrific breach by Tewksbury Public Schools that I recently noted? The Town Crier now reports that Tewksbury School Committee member Lisa Puccia has resigned from her seat, “citing the recent data breach as a factor in her decision.” Jayne W. Miller quotes from Puccia’s resignation letter: “In light of the recent breach by the school district regarding the Out…
Category: Exposure
CA: Hundreds Of Dental Records Found In Vacant Building
Christine O’Donnell reports that hundreds of dental records with patients’ addresses, insurance information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and drivers license numbers were found in what appears to be a vacant building in Orange. Of concern, the building has broken windows and homeless people have been observed going in and out of it for a while…
OpIsrael: Anonymous Hacks Israeli Arms Importer Website, Leaks Thousands of Login Data
Waqas writes: Online hacktivist Anonymous has breached into an Israeli gun shop website (lhbltd.com) and leaked login credentials plus personal details of its local and international customers, including some government officers. The leaked data files have been divided and pasted in three different parts on Pastie sites for #OpIsrael. After analyzing the data we found out that data…
TX: Denton County Health Department Alerts TB Clinic Patients to Breach
From the Denton County Health Department: HIPAA Security Breach Notification April 10, 2015 On February 13, 2015, a Denton County Health Department employee temporarily left a USB drive at a local printing store in order to print a personal document from the device. Unfortunately, that USB drive included 874 unsecured data files of tuberculosis (TB)…
Personal data of people who never even applied to Auburn University was also exposed in breach
The Auburn University breach involving the exposure of information just got worse, in my opinion. Erin Edgemon reports that some of the people who had their data exposed not only never attended Auburn, but never even applied there. Not surprisingly, they would like to know how Auburn got personal information about them that wound up exposed. But Auburn reportedly…
Equifax discloses data breach due to technical error during software change
Credit reporting giant Equifax is notifying some consumers that some of their personal information may have erroneously been sent to other individuals due to a technical error during a software change. Equifax discovered the problem on March 15, and notes that they attempted to call all recipients of the inadvertent disclosures to recover the files…