From their press release: National Mentor Healthcare, LLC (d/b/a Georgia MENTOR) is notifying individuals of a data security event that could potentially impact the security of certain personal information. Although we are unaware of any actual or attempted misuse of the information, we are providing potentially impacted individuals with information about the event, steps taken…
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UPDATE: FLVS leak affected 50,000 Leon County employees and students
WGCU has the update here. Note that they will be sending out individual notifications. It’s not clear whether FLVS is sending out individual notifications to any of the non-Leon County students or parents whose data was on their server. And an even more complete update here. Leon County Schools superintendent blasts FLVS.
Leon County Schools explains the Florida Virtual School Data Leak
To follow up on my post about a Florida vendor’s misconfiguration that impacted 368,000 students as well as thousands of former and current Leon County Schools employees: I took marked exception to some of the FLVS‘s initial claims because I felt it was misleading to try to cry “hack” when it was a misconfigured server that exposed…
UK: Council letters with personal details found dumped in bin bag on Washington street
Kali Lindsay reports: Council tax demand letters with confidential information were found dumped in a black bin bag on a street. Found near the Galleries Shopping Centre, Washington , the bag was filled with letters from Jacobs Enforcement Agents. The letters contained details of residents owing Council Tax to 18 local authorities, including Newcastle City…
Leon County Schools vendor’s data leak exposed 368,000 current and former FLVS students’ details, LCS teacher data, and more
Leon County Schools in Tallahassee, Florida has more than 34,000 students, more than 2,400 teachers, and a total of 4,300 employees. That’s a lot of students and teachers to notify when you discover that a third-party vendor’s mistake exposed their personal information for almost two years. But it’s not as much as the vendor, Florida…
Flexible Benefit Service Corporation notifies 5,123 of phishing incident
Illinois-headquartered Flexible Benefit Service Corporation (“Flex”) is a general agency and benefit administrator serving insurance brokers, employers and insurance carriers. As such, they are a Business Associate to HIPAA-covered entities. The follow is from their notification of a security incident that was reported to HHS on February 16, as impacting 5,123 people. Flex does not indicate…