More on a situation I noted yesterday. This approach to using/monetizing vulnerability discoveries is downright scary…. but will it work to improve security? Here’s one of your must-reads for today. Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley report: When a team of hackers discovered that St. Jude Medical Inc.’s pacemakers and defibrillators had security vulnerabilities that could put…
Category: Of Note
NYC students’ personal info left on street in careless breach
For your “Why is this still happening in 2016?” file: Just one day after New York State Education Department announced it has appointed its first Chief Privacy Officer, WABC reports: In a shocking breach of confidential information, names, addresses, even social security numbers for students and parents were found outside a Bronx school. Eyewitness News has learned…
AU: Foster care privacy breaches span more than a decade
Beau Donelly reports: Victoria’s child-protection agency has been breaching the privacy of traumatised children and foster carers across the state for more than a decade and quietly paying them off or upgrading security at their homes if they find out about it. Fairfax Media last month exposed a series of major security breachesout of the Department…
Noble House Hotels & Resorts responds to data breach
I wonder if this incident involves the same unnamed vendor linked to the Millenium Hotels & Resorts incident. Noble House Hotels and Resorts (Noble House) values the relationship it has with its guests and understands the importance of protecting your personal information. Regrettably, an incident occurred that may involve some of your information. Noble House…
Millennium Hotels & Resorts North America Informed of Potential Data Security Incident
The Secret Service alerts you, a vendor notifies you… do we really think this is just a “potential” data security incident? Their press release: Millennium Hotels & Resorts North America (MHR) has become aware of a data security incident involving food and beverage point of sale systems at 14 of its hotels in the United…
Do you or a family member have a Health Savings Account? If so, read this.
If you have a health savings account (HSA), you may be one of many people who treat it like a savings account or an inactive checking account where you do not check your balance or withdrawals frequently. But your HSA may be an attractive target for fraudsters, and you need to protect it. DataBreaches.net has heard that…