No one could possibly have foreseen this: In a major embarassment for the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), alleged personal details of its chairman R S Sharma were leaked on Saturday after he tweeted his Aadhaar number asking if it had made him vulnerable to any security risk. The TRAI chief shared his 12-digit Unique Identification Authority…
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BUSTED? A blackhat’s revenge exposes a 2-year old patient data hack that Holland Eye Surgery & Laser Center failed to disclose
A blackhat hacker known as “Lifelock” had claimed Holland Eye Surgery and Laser Center knew about his hack two years ago but failed to disclose it to patients or HHS. A follow-up investigation by DataBreaches.net uncovered evidence supporting his claim. The evidence has been turned over to federal regulators. On June 2, DataBreaches.net reported that…
How they did it (and will likely try again): GRU hackers vs. US elections
Sean Gallagher does a deeper dive into the indictment of 12 GRU agents for meddling with the U.S. 2016 election. Here’s just a small snippet: After digging into this latest indictment, the evidence suggests Trump may not have made a very good call on this matter [publicly expressing doubt that Russia was involved]. But his…
North Dakota Veterans’ personal information at risk, audit says
James B. Miller reports: In an extensive report, the Office of the State Auditor recently expressed concerns with the North Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs’ handling of the veteran aid loan, hardship assistance grant, impact grant and highly rural transportation grant programs. […] Most notably, the audit found that the Veteran Aid Loan System was…
MA: Deal Struck To Protect Consumers Hurt By Data Breaches
Katie Lannan reports: A compromise bill filed Tuesday by a House-Senate conference committee would afford Massachusetts residents a year and a half of free credit monitoring services if their personal data and Social Security number are compromised by a data security breach. The panel, chaired by Rep. Tackey Chan and Sen. Barbara L’Italien, filed its…
Thousands of Medical Records Left Unsecured–So Who’s Investigating?
A news report from a few days ago is actually a good example of the frustration some experience with OCR investigation of breaches. TL;DR version: a breach was reported by the media in March, 2017. This site also noted it. But now, more than one year later, there have been no consequences for the entity,…