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D.C. government data breach exposed nurses’ Social Security numbers

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Dissent

Fenit Nirappil reports: The D.C. Department of Health has warned hundreds of nurses that their personal information was inadvertently exposed in the online licensing portal and is offering them one year of credit-monitoring services. A nurse navigating the nursing board’s online portal somehow ended up on a nonpublic portion of a database that included the…

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Coca-Cola notifying employees of insider breach (updated)

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Dissent

Coca-Cola is notifying employees that a former employee reportedly misappropriated their personal information.  The number of employees or other individuals affected was not disclosed in the notification letter, but Coca-Cola reports that they learned of the breach on September 1, 2017 from law enforcement, who asked them to delay notification.  Law enforcement recently gave Coca-Cola…

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SimplyWell (Viverae) notifying Lincoln Electric System employees of of personal health info breach

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Dissent

It’s been a while since I’ve noticed a third-party breach of a wellness vendor, but here we go, it seems. SimplyWell (“Viverae”) works with Healthbreak, who provides wellness services to the firm in question.  SimplyWell, Inc. (“SimplyWell”) recently discovered a data privacy incident that may affect the privacy of certain Lincoln Electric System (“LES”) employees’…

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Data Leak May Have Affected Patients at Muir Medical Group IPA

Posted on May 23, 2018 by Dissent

NBC reports: Muir Medical Group patients who received treatment between November 2013 and February 2017 may have had their personal information shared without their consent, the company reported. The Walnut Creek-based firm discovered the leak on March 7 after a former employee took information with her before her employment ended, according to the company. This…

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University of Toledo alerts some faculty, students of lost flash drive

Posted on May 21, 2018 by Dissent

Lauren Lindstrom reports: A lost flash drive containing the names and Social Security numbers of an undisclosed number of people associated with the University of Toledo prompted the university to send out letters alerting those affected by the “security incident.” A UT faculty member lost an unencrypted flash drive containing personal information belonging to some…

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NY: 2,690 University of Buffalo logins stolen in data breach (updated)

Posted on May 19, 2018 by Dissent

Benjamin Blanchet reports: Thousands of UB community members’ account information have been hacked. On Friday, UB confirmed that J. Brice Bible, vice president and chief information officer, is investigating and responding to a breach of 2,690 UBITName accounts. The breach affects 1,800 student accounts, 862 alumni accounts and 28 faculty and staff accounts, according to…

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