The Associated Press reports that the amount of data missing from Dallas’s computer database is almost triple the initial estimate of files lost during a data migration involving Dallas Police files. About 15 terabytes of police data are missing besides the 7.5 terabytes initially thought to be lost, city spokeswoman Janella Newsome said. Read more…
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Beaumont Health notifies patients of Accellion breach
Friday, August 27, 2021 On February 5, 2021, Goodwin Procter LLP (“Goodwin”) notified Beaumont Health (“Beaumont”) of a security incident at Accellion, a third-party vendor whose File Transfer software was used by Goodwin for large file transfers on behalf of clients, including Beaumont. Goodwin received some personal and protected health information from Beaumont in connection…
Less than two months after its launch and inaugural hack, GETTR is leaking data
GETTR, a social media platform similar to Twitter but frequented by people who don’t feel welcome on Twitter, officially launched on July 4th, 2021. It may be hard to remember what came first — the official launch of the platform run by former President Trump’s ex-spokesman Jason Miller or its first data breach, which was…
New York State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases More School District Audits
Comptroller DiNapoli released more school district audits this week. As this site has done in the past, we are listing the ones that deal with information technology. The summaries are below; the links take you to the fuller reports, but as as always: (1) the results are not good (to put it as diplomatically as…
Cook County circuit clerk’s website may not be fully functional for a ‘few weeks’
Stefano Esposito reports: If you were hoping to look up a case on the clerk of the circuit court of Cook County’s website, you may be out of luck for a few weeks. The website has been down since Aug. 13 after a breach that directed users to an NFL-related website, court staff said. “The…
Pennsylvanians who had personal information exposed in contact tracing data breach no longer suing state
Rick Earle reports: The Pennsylvania Health Department has been dismissed from a federal lawsuit including Insight Global, the company responsible. Insight Global is now the only defendant named in that lawsuit. Target 11 broke the story in April that personal information of more than 70,000 Pennsylvania residents involved in COVID-19 contact tracing had been compromised. Insight Global blamed…