Seen on Landline: A problem with the Unified Carrier Registration plan’s website may have exposed Social Security or Tax ID numbers for thousands of users. UCR indicated that the vulnerability existed between March 1st and March 28th, 2019. The information exposed includes 23,000 Social Security numbers. After a bit of searching, I found the actual notice from…
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Patient’s attorney files claim against SF over Laguna Honda abuse: ‘He’s angry. He wants answers’
Joshua Sabatini reports: A middle-aged, disabled man who is among a number of patients impacted by the abuse scandal at Laguna Honda Hospital is angry and wants answers, according to his attorney who has filed a legal claim against The City. “Having those answers is part of the healing process,” said the patient’s attorney, Sara Peters, with the law…
U.S. Food Chain Alerts Customers of Payment Card Incident
Sergiu Gatlan reports: U.S. fast-food restaurant chain Krystal disclosed a security incident involving one of is payment processing systems and affecting some of its restaurants between July and September 2019. […] Krystal says that “the security incident may have involved payment cards processed by a payment processing system used at certain restaurants” and that not…
Kroger reports ‘isolated incident’ involving pharmacy records
Jason Braverman reports: Kroger announced today that a box of pharmacy records was lost. They said in late July, a records management service, Retrievex, Inc., the company’s business associate, shipped a box of pharmacy records to the Woodstock Kroger via a third-party common carrier. Retrievex confirmed with the carrier that the box was lost in…
Senator Demands Review of How DHS Shares PII With Contractors
Akshaya Asokan reports: Sen. Maggie Hasan, D-N.H. is demanding that the U.S. Government Accountability Office review how the Department of Homeland Security shares personal data with third parties following several recent security incidents in which such information was exposed. In an Oct. 23 letter to the GAO, Hassan writes that recent “troubling” security incidents connected to…
Ransomware hit TrialWorks, law firms and lawyers were not able to access court documents
Pierluigi Paganini reports: TrialWorks, a company that provides the most established and widely used legal case management software solutions, was a victim of a ransomware attack earlier this month. At result of the attack, law firms and lawyers, were not able to access the legal documents hosted on TrialWorks’ platform. Read more on Security Affairs.