In November 2013, I blogged about the case of a privacy breach at Northern Inyo Hospital that was so devastating to the patient that she was going to move away. The breach was a willful insider breach that impacted a custody dispute. That same year, and unbeknownst to most people, there was a lawsuit filed over another insider…
Category: U.S.
MA: Records request yields heavily redacted letter sent to state Attorney General in wake of Amherst website data disclosure
An update to a previously noted breach. Scott Merzbach reports: A public records request by the Daily Hampshire Gazette seeking more information about the disclosure of residents’ personal information through the Amherst municipal website yielded a heavily redacted letter that collector and treasurer Claire McGinnis sent to state Attorney General Maura Healey, notifying her office…
Man linked to JPMorgan hacking in talks to resolve U.S. case: filing
Nate Raymond reports: A Florida man accused of running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange and who is among five defendants linked to last summer’s massive data breach at JPMorgan Chase & Co is in talks to resolve his criminal case, according to court papers filed Friday. In a court filing in federal court in Manhattan, a…
PA: Two York County Court clerks leak police information to suspects
Taniel Orr reports: Two employees in a York District Judge’s office have been let go after officials say they gave out sensitive information, which included a police officer’s work schedule, to suspects. According to charging documents, Solmaria Martinez-Arce, 31, also known as “Beba,” and Brittany Koons, 29, both of York, were desk clerks in Magistrate…
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology email gaffe exposes student info
AP reports: Officials at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology say an email that a university employee inadvertently sent to graduate students included an attachment with names, student identification numbers and grade point averages of about 350 students. Read more on Idaho Statesman.
Clayton Valley Charter attorney asks newspaper to return hacked files if obtained
Matthias Gafni has an update to a hack previously noted on this blog: An attorney for Clayton Valley Charter High School has shed new light on the extent of documents hacked from the school’s executive director. In an email sent Tuesday to reporters at this newspaper, attorney Paul Minney wrote that records obtained through a…