NWF Daily News reports: There may have been a security break for Okaloosa County Water and Sewer users who paid their bills with a credit or debit card, according to a press release from the county. The security breach occurred involving external vendors which process electronic credit/debit card payments for water and sewer bills. In…
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Medical and personal information on 33,420 BJC HealthCare patients left exposed on Internet
By Blythe Bernhard A security breach at BJC HealthCare left personal information on 33,420 patients potentially available to the public, a company spokeswoman said today. The patients’ medical records, names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, drivers license numbers, medical and insurance information were accessible through the Internet from May 9, 2017,…
IL: Security breach affects 46 employees, family members at Columbia College Chicago
Molly Wash, a campus reporter, reports that Share Point may have shared too much, but it’s not clear to me from the report how this happened. A data security breach resulted in the disclosure of the names and Social Security numbers of Columbia employees and their family members on IRIS, the college’s internal website. The…
SuperValu Data Breach Claim Nixed, Court Sees No Consumer Harm
Daniel R. Stoller reports: Grocery store chains SuperValu Inc. and New Albertson’s Inc. again dodged class claims over a 2014 data breach that impacted over 1,000 stores, after a federal court said hacked payment card data didn’t inflict enough direct harm to sustain a lawsuit. Judge Ann D. Montgomery of the U.S. District Court for…
Leon County Schools vendor’s data leak exposed 368,000 current and former FLVS students’ details, LCS teacher data, and more
Leon County Schools in Tallahassee, Florida has more than 34,000 students, more than 2,400 teachers, and a total of 4,300 employees. That’s a lot of students and teachers to notify when you discover that a third-party vendor’s mistake exposed their personal information for almost two years. But it’s not as much as the vendor, Florida…
Ninth Circuit Revives Data Breach Claims Against Zappos
In January, 2012, Zappos announced that they were notifying more than 24 million consumers to change their passwords following a hack. In the months that followed, a to-be-predicted lawsuit was filed, and state attorneys general started investigating. Eventually, Zappos settled with states, and the class-action lawsuit was dismissed in 2015. Whew, right? Not so fast, though. Ross Todd…