Jason Rowley reports: An anonymous source tipped off Crunchbase News that Eaze, the Series B-stage cannabis delivery startup with over $24 million in venture funding, has experienced a security incident. Some of its user data may have been stolen by a former employee of Don Davidson, MD, a medical service provider that provides patient consultations and medical cannabis recommendations…
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Hundreds of Southern Illinois Healthcare Patients Potentially Impacted by Insurance Breach
Brad Palmer reports: Southern Illinois Healthcare is notifying more than 600 patients who might be impacted by a breach of their information. SIH Privacy Officer Marcia Matthias says it was an isolated incident involving the misdirection of data to other HIPPA-governed [sic] medical facilities by a third party vendor. SIH has a business relationship with…
GOP data firm that exposed millions of Americans’ personal information is facing its first class-action lawsuit
Natasha Bertrand reports: A data-analytics firm hired by the Republican National Committee last year to gather political information about US voters accidentally leaked the sensitive personal details of roughly 198 million citizens earlier this month. And it’s now facing its first class-action lawsuit. Deep Root Analytics, a data firm contracted by the RNC, stored details of about…
Data on 198M voters exposed by RNC contractor
It’s somewhat unbelievable how this keeps happening and Congress continues to sit on its hands when it comes to voter registration data. The Russians don’t need to hack anything. They just need to look for leaky servers or buckets. Joe UChill reports: A data analytics contractor employed by the Republican National Committee (RNC) left databases…
Oops. Tata dev accidentally leaked banks’ code on public GitHub repo
Iain Thomson reports: Staff at Indian outsourcing biz Tata Consultancy Service uploaded a huge trove of financial institutions’ source code and internal documents to a public GitHub repository, an IT expert has claimed. Jason Coulls, CTO of food safety testing company Tellspec and a former banking software developer, said he stumbled upon the collection of…
Protecting Sensitive Hospital Data Is Becoming Harder For Some Entrepreneurs
Melissa Thompson reports: The Wall Street Journal recently ran a disturbing article about hospital data security — or the lack thereof. It seems that Tanium, a new cybersecurity company, is alleged to have used private data from a hospital in El Camino, CA during their sales demonstrations with other health facilities throughout the state, and…