In April, this site noted what I described as a “horrific” breach involving the Tewksbury public schools. A document included in a 222-page School Committee packet that had been publicly available online not only exposed personal and private details for the out of district placements of 83 special education students, but it rated their parents according…
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More than 1,000 employees in Anchorage veterans administration notified of breach due to employee error
On June 10, the Salt Lake City Regional Office of the Veterans Administration was notified that the The Wounded Warrior Program Office in Seattle had received a box from a veteran in Anchorage. The veteran had previously gone to the Anchorage office in April to request a copy of her VA file, and several weeks later, had returned to…
Albuquerque veterans’ information exposed in human error breach
Errors continue to plague the Veterans Administration System. In its June report, the Albuquerque VA reported that a veteran returned a a list to the Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF-OIF) Office. He had found the list containing 73 veterans’ full names and full Social Security Numbers with appointment dates in paperwork he had picked up…
Law firm notifies clients after laptop stolen on trolley
The California law firm of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo is notifying clients after a personal laptop belonging to a member of the firm was stolen while the attorney was on the MTS Trolley in downtown San Diego on April 23. Since that time, the firm has been working with law enforcement but, to date, they…
Lottery IT security boss guilty of hacking lotto systems to win $14.3m
Iain Thomson reports: Iowa state lottery’s IT security boss hacked his employer’s computer system, and rigged the lottery so he could buy a winning ticket in a subsequent draw. On Tuesday, at the Polk County Courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa, the disgraced director of information security was found guilty of fraud. Eddie Tipton, 52, installed…
Potential class action filed in UCLA Health System breach
So of course UCLA Health System has been sued over their recently disclosed breach, even though they’ve said they don’t have any evidence that patient information was even accessed. All they know/were able to confirm so far is that the hackers had access to the part of the system that housed patient information. Law360 has…