Telangana | Indo-Asian News Service provides some more details on the TDP incident: An alleged data breach by a company which provides IT services to Andhra Pradesh’s ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the action taken against it by Telangana police triggered a row between the two states on Sunday. On a petition by an…
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More than 5 months after ransomware incident, Wolverine Solutions Group still notifying more than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients
More than 5 months after a ransomware incident, Wolverine Solutions Group is still in the process of notifying more than 700 companies and 1.2 million patients. Should they even have to, or has the government imposed too burdensome a responsibility on entities that experience attacks to individually notify patients when there is no evidence of…
Pompano Beach warned nearly 4,000 residents of data breach involving Click2Gov
Wayne K. Roustan reports: A data breach at a company that handles the billing for municipal water service has Pompano Beach city officials working to minimize the potential damage. Hackers gained unauthorized access to credit or debit card data stored with software company CentralSquare and used for one-time online water bill payments made through the…
MN: Data breach hits Dunn Brothers, Chino Latino, several metro businesses
KARE reports: Customers at Dunn Brothers, Chino Latino, Sebastian Joe’s and several other metro businesses may have had their credit cards compromised last month. North Country Business Products, Inc., announced the security breach on Monday. They said a “recent data security incident may have resulted in unauthorized access” to debit and credit card information. Read…
42,000 SLCC students’ tax documents were lost when unencrypted drive fell out of mailed envelope
Someone asked me today about the lack of W-2 phishing reports or W-2 incidents that we’ve seen so far this year. I responded that I hadn’t really had time to research W-2 attacks yet, but a reader, “DLOW,” has now kindly submitted a news story by Mary Richards of KSL in Utah. The kinds of…
NE: CHI Health officials say virus introduced to health system’s network by third-party vendor’s infected device
So let’s be honest: how often do you monitor your third-party vendors or business associates to ensure that the devices they may connect to your network are free from malware? Julie Anderson reports: CHI Health has caught a virus, but it’s not the kind the health system is used to battling. Dr. Cliff Robertson, CHI…