Joseph Brookes reports: A youth case worker stood down from a Victorian health department service provider on suspicion of accessing child pornography continued to access sensitive information about clients for months afterwards, according to a data breach inquiry into the incident. Failings in the department’s privacy protections meant the man – who was also subject to…
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Walmart: Notice of Data Security Incident
On February 16, 2021, Walmart was informed by one of its suppliers that a data hosting service they used was compromised on January 20, 2021. An unauthorized party accessed the service and stole records from that service provider. Some of those records included information about a confined number of Walmart pharmacy patients. Walmart’s information systems…
Data leak at Dutch foreign credential assessment service impacts 18,000
ANP reports (translation): Foreigners looking for a job in the Netherlands can obtain an assessment of their diploma on the labor market from the organization Nuffic. The application system used by Nuffic has been tested by some sixty software developers in Serbia. This country is not part of the European Union, which means that rather strict rules…
Trillium Community Health Plan members impacted by Accellion breach
DataBreaches.net has found a second HIPAA-covered entity that has revealed that it was affected by the Accellion attack by CLOP threat actors. On February 25, Trillium Community Health Plan in Oregon disclosed that they had been notified by Accellion on January 25 of the cyberattack that impacted dozens of Accellion’s clients. In Trillium’s case, the…
JP: Consulting firm hit with ransomware; 350 households have info possibly leaked
Hokkaido Cultural Broadcasting reports that an unnamed consulting firm in Tokyo contracted by Asahikawa City as part of rebuilding a housing complex was compromised by ransomware, resulting in the compromise of personal information for about 350 households. Read about it on fnn.jp (Japanese). h/t, @Chum1ng0
Ca: Personal data of 50,000 N.S. health-care workers may have been compromised by Accellion breach
Reports concerning an incident involving Nova Scotia Health Employees’ Pension Plan (NSHEPP) in Canada are part of the Accellion breach that has been in the news since January. NSHEPP has posted a number of notices and updates on their site. It is not yet confirmed whether their data was actually exfiltrated by the attackers or…