Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has reported yet another data security incident — what appears to be the fourth one in five years. Washington University School of Medicine is notifying an as-yet revealed number of patients and research participants whose personal and protected health information was in employee email accounts that were…
Category: Hack
Hackers Know Where You’ve Been Driving: General Motors Discloses Data Breach
Lucas Ropek reports: General Motors suffered a hack that exposed a significant amount of sensitive personal information on car owners—names, addresses, phone numbers, locations, car mileage, and maintenance history. The Detroit-based automaker revealed details of the incident in a breach disclosure filed with the California Attorney General’s Office on May 16. Read more at Gizmodo.
Another Texas state agency data breach — this time, it’s the Department of Transportation
This is not be the first time the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has apparently had a data security incident, and it certainly not the largest breach the state has ever experienced, but it appears that TxDOT’s portal for the certified payroll system for contractors has been hacked. Two posts by one individual appeared over…
Fraudster who hacked SUNY Plattsburgh accounts gets 9 ¼ year prison sentence
Robert Gavin reports: A federal judge sentenced Michael P. Fish to 9 ¼ years in prison Friday, saying he depravedly hacked into the accounts of dozens of unsuspecting female students at SUNY Plattsburgh, stole their private photos and sold the images on the internet. With his family watching on a courtroom bench, the 26-year-old Fish sat in…
Immediate care facility in Chicago hacked in December. Do patients know? (UPDATE1)
Approximately 43,000 patients of an immediate care facility and its associated primary care practice in Chicago may or may not know it yet, but threat actors gained access to protected health information in December and proceeded to remove more than 500 GB of files between December and May 10. Or so the threat actors claim….
Update: More than 90,000 South Australian public servants now involved in payroll data breach
Rory McLaren reports: South Australia’s Treasurer says 13,088 current and former public servants more than previously thought had their personal information stolen in a cyber attack last year. Treasurer Stephen Mullighan told parliament on Wednesday a “forensic review” by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) uncovered the additional people that had had their personal data stolen, in addition to the 80,000 employees announced…