Morgan Chalfant reports: A breach of a Kansas Department of Commerce system exposed more than 5 million Social Security numbers to hackers, according to a report from a local news outlet. The Kansas News Service obtained information through a public records request that revealed that roughly 5.5 million Social Security numbers from individuals in 10 states were…
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Vendor Breached Your Company Data? Sorry, You’re Still Liable
Rhys Dipshan writes: Call it the summer of vendor security mishaps. In June, a data firm hired by the Republican National Committee inadvertently exposed the personal information of almost 200 million American voters by misconfiguring an Amazon cloud server. A month later, Verizon’s customer service vendor NICE Systems made the same mistake and exposed data…
Veterans Administration responds to Freedom of Information request; releases breach reports
So what did we miss because the Veterans Administration stopped posting their monthly breach reports to Congress on their web site? DataBreaches.net filed a Freedom of Information request on June 7, and the VA has responded by providing all of the requested monthly reports for the period May, 2016 – June 7, 2017. As an…
How about the truth, the WHOLE truth, and….. ?
So Harvest Bible Chapel d/b/a Walk in the Word Ministries notified donors of a vendor breach that they learned about on May 30, 2017. We determined that the unknown individual may have accessed payment information, including name, address, telephone number, credit/debit card, or checking account information depending on the form of payment you used on our…
Detroit Medical Center reports data breach affecting 1,500
The Detroit Medical Center announced a data breach of health information that involves about 1,500 patients seen at one of its facilities in 2015 and 2016. The health system announced today that a staffing agency contracted by the DMC notified hospital officials that one of the agency’s employees provided the information to unauthorized people who weren’t…
Ivinson Memorial Hospital notifies patients of FastHealth breach
Another FastHealth client is disclosing the vendor’s malware breach to its patients. Eve Newman reports: More than 500 Ivinson Memorial Hospital patients should receive notices in coming days that their billing and health information might have been compromised because of a security breach involving a hospital website vendor. FastHealth, which provides website services to IMH,…