Kristen Eichensehr writes: Last Friday was a big day in cybersecurity news. OPM announced that, in addition to the compromise of the personnel information of federal employees revealed on June 4, Chinese hackers also breached a database containing millions of security clearance forms. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Potomac, the Department of Defense…
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BAE Systems first notifying employees of extranet site network attack in 2014
On June 4, BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had experienced a network attack on an extranet site in 2014. Due to the nature and scope of the attack, they provided a data set to the Pentagon’s Damage Assessment Management Office (DAMO), who subsequently…
Rogue Equifax employee improperly accessed Rite Aid employees’ information
Pharmacy giant Rite Aid receives online paystubs, W-2s, and self-service applications from Equifax. In early March, Equifax notified Rite Aid that it had detected suspicious activity on some Rite Aid employee accounts. Equifax’s investigation resulted in a subsequent notification to Rite Aid on April 30 that an employee had misused their privileged access to reset…
Updates on OPM breach(es)
Some bits ‘n pieces of the follow-ups on the OPM hack… Malia Zimmerman reports: In addition to data from the OPM breach, Roberts said a new OWL search has uncovered another 9,500 government log-in credentials stolen this week from a variety of county, state and federal agencies across the nation, for everything from the Obamacare…
NY: 18,000 North Shore University Hospital- LIJ patients notified 8 months after data theft at business associate’s offices
Candic Ruud reports: The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is warning about 18,000 patients that their personal, health and insurance information is at risk due to a potential data breach. Five laptops were stolen last September from the offices of Global Care Delivery, a Texas-based firm that contracted with North Shore-LIJ and other providers…
Sex, lies and debt potentially exposed by OPM hack
Arshad Mohammed and Joseph Menn report: When a retired 51-year-old military man disclosed in a U.S. security clearance application that he had a 20-year affair with his former college roommate’s wife, it was supposed to remain a secret between him and the government. The disclosure last week that hackers had penetrated a database containing such…