From their press release: Consolidated Tribal Health Project, Inc. (“CTHP”) has become aware of a data security event involving unauthorized access by a former employee to certain CTHP systems and information maintained by CTHP. CTHP has been working to understand the nature and scope of the incident, and has engaged third-party data forensics experts to assist with its investigation. …
Category: U.S.
St. Louis Federal Reserve Suffers DNS Breach
Brian Krebs reports: The St. Louis Federal Reserve today sent a message to the banks it serves alerting them that in late April 2015 attackers succeeded in hijacking the domain name servers for the institution. The attack redirected Web searches and queries for those seeking a variety of domains run by the government entity to a Web page…
MN: Associated Dentists notifying patients after office burglary
Associated Dentists is notifying affected patients of a data security incident that may affect the security of their protected health information. Associated Dentists and investigating authorities are unaware of any attempted or actual misuse of patients’ protected health information. Associated Dentists is providing notification to ensure that patients are aware of the incident so that…
IL: Boyd Hospital failed to remove stored patient records before building sold
Paging HHS to Aisle 4…. Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree reports: What started as a routine purchase of a surplus county building has resulted in the discovery of thousands of medical records and allegations of theft. Jerseyville resident Edward Crone bought the property at 505 S. Main St. from the county on March 19 — more than a…
How to get yourself bad PR, Capital One edition
Betty Lin-Fisher reports: Louise Gunther of Fairlawn called recently to express her extreme frustration at how, despite six weeks of efforts to correct the problem, she was continuing to get what she felt was private information sent by email for someone else’s Capital One credit card. Gunther regularly checks the email for her domestic partner…
Wayne County (Indiana) Sheriff’s Dept Website Defaced, Login Data Leaked
Waqas reports: The online hacktivist AnonGhost just hacked, defaced the official website of Wayne Country Sheriff’s department and publicly leaked its database containing login credentials of its employees. The attack on the Sheriff’s website was conducted under the banner of #OpUSA, an online operation where Palestine friendly hackers are targeting US based websites. Read more on HackRead.