So simple a child could do it? Fox46 reports: Iredell County, NC – Seven high school students were charged in an Iredell County campus computer breach. On Tuesday, September 1, Iredell Statesville School System reported to the sheriff’s office they has been hacked. The school believed the suspects were students at the school. The ISS IT Department quickly…
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Barrington Orthopedic Specialists, Ltd notifies patients after theft of equipment
Barrington Orthopedic Specials, Ltd in Illinois is notifying 1,009 patients following the theft of a laptop with protected health information. From their substitute notice on their web site: Barrington Orthopedic Specialists, Ltd. takes patient privacy very seriously, and it is important to us that you are made fully aware of a potential privacy issue. We have…
Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas notifying customers that malware was present in payment card system for more than one year (UPDATE 1)
Norton Rose Fulbright, a law firm representing The Trump Hotel Collection, is sending out notifications to customers who used a payment card at Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas between May 19, 2014, and June 2, 2015. They write: Although an independent forensic investigation has not conclusively determined that any particular customer’s payment card information was taken…
Hacker Exfocus Blamed For Knocking Rutgers University Offline With DDoS Attack, Even After Expensive Upgrade
Jeff Stone reports: Someone is tormenting Rutgers University. The New Jersey school announced on Monday it was fending off a distributed denial of service attack that crippled its Internet and Wi-Fi access. It’s just the latest cyberattack on a major U.S. research institution, and comes after a number of similar hacks against Rutgers, a school of approximately…
CA: Data breach involves Big Blue Bus customers
The Santa Monica Daily Press reports: The Big Blue Bus is alerting customers of a potential data breach related to the NextBus program. Officials were notified on Sept. 25 of a data security incident at NextBus, the company that BBB works with in order to make predictive real-time bus arrival information available to customers. BBB…
DEA obtains a federal search warrant for patient data on MicroMD
Justin Shafer pointed me to a case where the government, investigating a healthcare provider, served SaaS MicroMD with a federal search warrant for some patients’ data. You can read Justin’s write-up on his blog, but the case reminds us that patient data can be disclosed to law enforcement without patients’ awareness or consent, and that unencrypted patient…