The following analysis in the Texas Senate suggests that OCR and Texas have been negotiating a resolution agreement since Texas first reported this breach in June, 2015. Not only does that seem like a long time for this to be going on, but if you were to look at HHS’s public breach tool to see…
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Ohio dental insurance carrier disclosed breach involving some members’ information
Another day, another hack involving an employee’s email account that held protected health information? From Superior Dental Care in Ohio: March 25, 2019 04:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time CENTERVILLE, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Superior Dental Care (SDC), a dental insurance carrier, today announced that a recent data security incident may have resulted in unauthorized access to some of…
Supreme Court rejects Amazon’s Zappos on data breach lawsuit
Melissa Locker reports: In 2012, 24 million Zappos customers found out that hackers had accessed their personal information. Since then, customers have fought to sue Zappos, Amazon’s online shoe retailer, over the data breach. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal, meaning they can move forward with a class-action lawsuit against the company for…
Hackers Hijacked ASUS Software Updates to Install Backdoors on Thousands of Computers
Kim Zetter reports: Researchers at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab say that ASUS, one of the world’s largest computer makers, was used to unwittingly install a malicious backdoor on thousands of its customers’ computers last year after attackers compromised a server for the company’s live software update tool. The malicious file was signed with legitimate ASUS…
AU: Security researcher pleads guilty in GoGet case
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site in January, 2018. Rohan Pearce reports: Illawarra-based security researcher Nikola Cubrilovic has pleaded guilty to charges related to unauthorised access to the GoGet service and will be sentenced in May. Cubrilovic was arrested in January 2018 and charged with allegedly accessing a database the car-sharing…
UK: Hampshire’s Police Federation comes under cyber attack from hackers
Tom Morton reports: The Police Federation of England and Wales has been hit by a second cyber attack. The organisation, which represents nearly 120,000 officers, said the ‘multi-pronged, sustained’ attack came at about 2.45pm on Thursday. It affected a number of databases as well as the advice website set up to deal with the first attack on March 9. Read more on The…