Update, March 8: A 21st Century Oncology spokesperson confirmed today to DataBreaches.net that 2.2 million patients were impacted by this breach. Note that this is the second time 21st Century Oncology learned of a data breach from federal authorities. In 2013, this site reported on an incident involving a rogue employee. That incident never appeared on HHS’s breach…
Category: Of Note
Was the company involved in FTC charges against LabMD raided by the FBI?
A business whose evidence the FTC relied upon in opening an investigation of LabMD has allegedly been raided by the FBI. It’s just the latest development in a case that has now involved the FTC, DOJ, the security of Marine One, the House Oversight Committee, and a slew of businesses who were told that their…
CFPB fines start-up Dwolla $100,000 for misrepresenting its data security
It’s not just the FTC looking at your security and your representations to clients about the security of your product. While the FTC recently settled charges against Henry Schein Practice Solutions for advertising a Dentrix product as providing “encryption” when it didn’t, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is also taking aim at companies that mislead consumers about security,…
Bailey’s notifies 15,000 online customers of payment card breach
It’s not enough I come across a payment card breach notification with a lot of detail, so I was surprised to read a notification of an e-commerce breach from Bailey’s to the Oregon Attorney General’s Office that provided so much information. Look at the first few paragraphs of the timber harvest gear firm’s notification. It includes the date…
US Debuts ‘Hack the Pentagon’ Bug Bounty
Tara Seals reports: Announcing what it calls “the first cyber bug bounty program in the history of the federal government,” the Department of Defense is inviting hackers to test the department’s cybersecurity profile. The Hack the Pentagon initiative is a pilot program that will use commercial sector crowdsourcing to uncover vulnerabilities and probe around for flaws on…
Federal Times obtained and analyzed 26,381 security incidents reported by HHS components over a 30-month period
Kudos to Federal Times, who obtained a tremendous amount of data from HHS about security incidents involving their component systems. Aaron Boyd reports on their analysis of data, which was obtained through a Freedom of Information request. The analyses look at types of attacks by components of HHS. Here’s some of their analysis and findings: The records…