Edmund H. Mahony reports: In an effort to recover tens of millions in losses, the insurer for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is trying to prove that lax control over confidential, computer data by Lilly’s security contractor enabled thieves to use detailed schematics to carry out brazen warehouse burglaries in Enfield and elsewhere across the country….
Category: U.S.
Stolen laptop contained UCSF research participants’ health & insurance info
The University of California – San Francisco posted this notice on their site on July 2: UC San Francisco is alerting individuals about a burglary involving an unencrypted laptop belonging to a faculty member in the Cardiac Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia Service that contained some personal, research and health information. While there is no evidence of…
Oops. A school sends all eighth-grade report cards to every family in the grade
Valerie Strauss reports: Oops. An elementary school in Connecticut accidentally e-mailed the report cards for every eighth-grade student to every eighth-grade family. Instead of sending a single report card as a secure document to a single family, someone sent all of the student evaluations as an attachment to the entire grade at Cromwell Middle School,…
MI: Around 85K affected in FireKeepers Casino data breach
WoodTV has an update/follow-up on a FireKeepers Casino breach first disclosed in May. Information from thousands of credit and debit cards may have been stolen during a data security breach at FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek. Officials with FireKeepers Casino confirmed Friday that approximately 85,000 credit and debit cards used between September 7, 2014, and…
Breach snobs
So Harvard gets hacked and dozens of media outlets dutifully headline it. But when millions of students, faculty, and staff at Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) had their hacked personal and financial information up for sale after MCCCD failed to properly secure their network following an earlier hack, most media outlets never even mentioned it – and…
Dumpsters full of employees’ documents at closed Albuquerque business could have been gold for ID thieves
Ryan Luby and Carlos Marquez report: Who doesn’t love a good night on the town? Known for having more than one club under one roof, Graham Central Station in Albuquerque was the place to be. But after nearly 11 years in the business, the doors are locked and the club is closed. Signs on the…