G. Wayne Miller reports: Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has disclosed a breach of personal health-care information affecting 1,567 people that the insurer blames on an unnamed vendor responsible for sending benefits explanations, also known as health-care services summaries, to members. In a media release Tuesday afternoon, the insurer said that some…
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School Board Considers Hiring Consultant to Investigate Whether Edmodo Breach Compromised Student Privacy
Bob Conrad reports: Student data used in the social networking educational platform Edmodo was stolen a year and a half ago. The Washoe County School District is now considering hiring a consultant to investigate whether any student information was compromised. Board of Trustees President Katy Simon Holland, speaking from a prepared statement at Tuesday’s board…
Karnataka’s famed land record database Bhoomi faces another security breach
Akshatha M reports: In a serious security breach of Karnataka’s famed land record database, 19 acres of government wasteland in Devanahalli were shifted to a private individual illegally last week. In Gobbaragunte village of Devanahalli taluk, around 40 km from Bengaluru, land value is very high. The incident has caused ripples in the revenue department. Land sharks are…
Click2Gov Payment System Security Breach
A reader kindly alerted me to the fact that the city of Tyler had reported a breach. When I looked into it, I see that it’s yet one more report on Click2Gov by Superion. This has been a known problem since last year, so why haven’t municipal governments updated and patched? RiskBasedSecurity had a more…
OR: Lane County Health and Human Services says more than 700 patients and clients had their files lost or possibly destroyed
Bryan Anderson reports: Lane County Health and Human Services announced the loss of 49 boxes containing patient and client information Tuesday night. The boxes contained 566 Community Health Centers of Lane County patient medical information files and 149 Lane County Developmental Disabilities client files. Those files included medical histories, addresses, contact information and social security…
PA: State Dept. of Corrections notifies employees, inmates of online security incident with third-party vendor
Fox43 reports: A “security incident” at a third-party vendor may have compromised the personal information of employees, inmates and others involved with the state Department of Corrections, the DOC announced Monday in a press release. The DOC says it has sent letters to those who may have been affected by the incident, which occurred on…