On August 4, this site reported a stolen laptop containing background checks. The laptop belonged to SterlingBackcheck, and was stolen from an employee’s car. More details on the numbers are starting to emerge. Today, we learned that the firm updated its report to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s to indicate that 734 New Hampshire residents…
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Costco Data Breach a Bigger-Than-Expected Problem
Investopedia reports: Warehouse membership club Costco says it needs more time to secure its photo processing website. Third-party photo service provider PNI Digital Media was hacked last month, causing retailers Costco, CVS Health, and Wal-Mart to take down their respective photo processing websites and post cautionary notes in their place. Costco had notified its customers at the time that…
Advanced Data Processing/Intermedix sued over 2012 insider breach
Remember the Advanced Data Processing/Intermedix insider breach of 2012 where a rogue employee provided ambulance patient identity information to others involved in a tax refund fraud scheme? I had covered it on PHIprivacy.net (cf here and here for just two of the posts) and also on this site (cf, this post). In reporting on the breach, one of the…
MT: Vandal gains access to medical files
Matt Hudson reports: Storage unit break-ins have become commonplace in the Flathead, but a recent incident had an unusual twist when a Kalispell medical practice discovered that its stored patient files had been accessed improperly. Urology Associates has been letting patients know that the firm’s storage unit, which houses thousands of patient files under lock…
China Jails TV Hacker for 12 Years Over Anti-Govt Broadcast
Another case where a disgruntled employee wreaks havoc. AFP reports: An engineer who hacked into a Chinese cable television system has been jailed for 12 years, state media reported, after he broadcast denunciations of the ruling Communist party — including showing the Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” image. Wang Yibo accessed the cable feed to 465,000 set-top…
Network Solutions customer sites defaced
Network Solutions reports that some sites hosted on internetpro.net were defaced earlier today: Customer Sites Hacked August 1, 2015 – We have had reports of several customer sites which have been compromised by a hacker. The attacks seem to be confined to one server, and we have are working to restore the compromised sites. In the…