Zack Whittaker reports: U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed a data breach has involved the photos of passengers traveling in and out of the United States. The photos were obtained from a subcontractor’s network through a “malicious cyberattack,” a CBP spokesperson told TechCrunch. The agency first learned of the breach on May 31. “CBP…
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Former Corp IT Director Convicted of Computer Fraud
Rachel Cohen reports on a hacking incident involving Corp-Students of Georgetown, Inc. (“The Corp.”). Former Georgetown student Justice Suh pleaded guilty on one count of computer fraud for hacking The Corp’s email system. The federal government charged Suh in D.C. federal court in April 2019, and the U.S. government representative in this case recommended a…
Kingman Regional Medical Center investigating potential breach of PHI
Agata Popeda reports: Kingman Regional Medical Center reported a “security incident” on its website, which was shut down on April 8 and, after two months, still remains under construction. The hospital established that “the configuration of the website made it possible for unauthorized person(s) to view some information entered into the website by KRMC customers,”…
And so it begins… state attorneys general investigating American Medical Collection Agency breach
From the Illinois Attorney General’s Office: Chicago — Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced an investigation into the data breach at American Medical Collection Agency, which may have exposed the personal information of nearly 12 million patients of Quest Diagnostics (Quest) and 7.7 million Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) patients. Raoul…
Report: Leak at Tech Data Corp. exposed 264GB of data — VPNMentor
VPNMentor reports that Tech Data Corporation sprung a major leak…. The research team at vpnMentor discovered a major data leak at the Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ: TECD), a Fortune 500 company providing tech products, services, and solutions globally. vpnMentor’s researchers, led by security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, identified the consequential data breach that exposes…
Sock company Bombas fined by NYS for delayed notification of data breach
There’s a follow-up to the Bombas breach that was previously reported on this site. Laura Italiano reports: Sock-maker Bombas has settled the most uncomfortable data-breach probe in the history of feet. New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday announced that Bombas LLC — whose ads call their products “the most comfortable socks in the…