The following is not your typical breach notification. It relates to a situation in which a business associate allegedly refuses to return the patient database despite its EULA and HIPAA obligation. The press release does not indicate whether the covered entity, Key Dental Group, is suing its former vendor to recover the database. Nor does…
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This UK pub chain left 17,000 customer details exposed online
Nicole Kobie reports: The personal details of thousands of beer drinkers were left exposed thanks to a Wi-Fi provider proving leakier than a smashed pint glass. Brewhouse & Kitchen is a small chain of pubs with 23 locations across the UK. These include locations in London, Nottingham, Chester, Cardiff and Bristol. Patrons attempting to access…
Do you login to merchant sites using your FB or Google credentials? The Annex Cloud breach may have affected you.
Hmm. This one could result in big numbers. A notification from Title Nine about Annex Cloud. Annex Cloud is a service provider that you may never have heard of but may have used many times. The notification explains: Annex Cloud provides a service that enables individuals to use their user name and password from social media…
City of Bakersfield announces data breach from hacked Click2Gov system
Another Click2Gov breach, this time affecting up to 2400 residents of the City of Bakersfield. The city’s statement, below, doesn’t indicate whether they were ever warned by CentralSquare Technologies, and if so, what they had done in response. DataBreaches.net has filed under freedom of information to try to obtain more records showing what CST had…
LPL Financial notifying advisors after Capital Forensics, Inc. was hacked
LPL Financial has sent a notification about a third-party hack that was shared with DataBreaches.net by a reader. The hack involving Capital Forensics, Inc. has reportedly affected a number of that vendor’s clients (but not all clients). From their November 9th notification to advisors, LPL writes: *What Happened* LPL works with a firm called Capital…
Jobscience breach impacted multiple health systems’ job applicants (UPDATED)
This week, Huntsville Hospital in Alabama disclosed a breach involving their vendor, Jobscience. The breach affected those applying for employment with the hospital. But Huntsville wasn’t the only hospital affected by Jobscience’s breach. In October, and flying under most media radar, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in Florida disclosed that they had been contacted by Jobscience on…