James Mayse reports for the Messenger-Inquirer: The names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of thousands of people who visited the Green River District Health Department were available unsecured online for months, at least since October. But the company maintaining the computer database fixed the problem immediately Wednesday evening after being notified by the…
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“Ugg Got Hacked: Sheepskin Boot Security Compromised Worldwide”
Well, no, that’s the headline on Racked, but what happened is the SilverPop breach we heard so much about last month. Racked has uploaded an image of UGG Australia’s notification to its customers, which names SilverPop and notes that customer information in the database included names, email addresses, and geographic information (city, country, zip code)….
UConn Customer Database Hacked (updated)
Bob Connors reports: UConn is warning thousands of customers who bought items on it’s HuskiesDirect.com HuskyDirect.com website that their personal information may have been exposed in a data security breach. A hacker obtained access to the HuskiesDirect.com HuskyDirect.com database containing billing information for 18,000 customers. The website is used by people to buy sports gear from…
PinnacleHealth notifies patients that a medical transcription service breach exposing patient records went undetected for two years
Another breach involving a transcription service. This time, it’s PinnacleHealth System in Pennsylvania, who recently reported an incident to HHS involving Gair Medical Transcription Services. On December 17, PinnacleHealth issued a press release that indicates that the breach may have occurred back in 2008, but was only detected when someone searching for something online stumbled across…
(update) NYC SSA breach involved more than SSN
As an update to the breach involving a subcontractor working in the NYC Social Security Administration Office of Temporary Disability Assistance, other news sources such as WTEN report the name of the individual arrested in the case: Evan Kane of Waterford, New York. It also appears that in addition to 15,000 Social Security Numbers, other…
Attackers walk with 4.9 million customer records in Honda breach
Steve Ragan reports: Is Honda the latest victim of the Silverpop data breach? According to reports, American Honda Motor Company recently discovered that 2.2 million customers were impacted by a data breach exposing the Owner Link email list maintained by an outsourced vendor. In addition, a further 2.7 million records were lost when the My…