Byram Healthcare is a firm that provides disposable medical supplies. They were acquired in 2017 by Owens & Minor. On October 22, Byram sent notification letters to patients whose data may have been stolen and/or misused by a former employee. Byram learned of the former employee’s wrongdoing when they were contacted by law enforcement. In…
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Paytm data theft case: Founder Vijay Shekhar’s kin says stolen data includes ‘photos, financial details’
Priyanka Saha reports: An extortion bid and a threat to leak out “some photos and personal financial details” have led to the arrest of Sonia Dhawan, a long-time secretary of Vijay Shekhar Sharma and the vice president, corporate communications of online payments firm Paytm. Others arrested are her husband Rupak Jain and an admin person…
Bombardier takes Mitsubishi to court, accuses it of ‘data’ theft
The Asahi Shimbun reports: The beleaguered manufacturer of the Mitsubishi Regional Jet is being sued by Canada’s Bombardier Inc. on grounds it unlawfully obtained trade secrets. Montreal-based Bombardier filed a lawsuit Oct. 19 at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington state in Seattle against Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., claiming the company unlawfully…
This Is What The Morrisons Data Leak Class Action Means For Future Breaches
Kate O’Flaherty reports: UK supermarket Morrisons is facing a massive payout to staff after losing the first data leak class action in the UK. It comes after Andrew Skelton, a senior internal auditor at the retailer’s Bradford headquarters, leaked employee data online in 2014. Last year, a court ruled the firm was liable for his actions….
Ca: AHS failed to protect health information, privacy commissioner finds
We had noted this breach on this site back in 2016, but here’s the follow-up. CBC reports: Alberta Health Services has come under fire from the province’s privacy commissioner for its role in the largest and longest-duration privacy breach AHS has ever experienced. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner reported Wednesday that a former AHS…
Equifax engineer who designed breach portal gets 8 months of house arrest for insider trading
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A former Equifax engineer who coded parts of the company’s breach notification website for last year’s security incident was sentenced this week to eight months of home confinement and restitution of ill-gotten funds after using insider information about the Equifax breach to make over $75,000 from insider trading. The sentence was passed…