Nicholas Katzban reports: An internal investigation by the Passaic Housing Authority has named employee Linda Colon as the suspected source of last month’s data breach, which the authority said compromised the personal information of 50 to 60 public housing residents. But Colon has not been charged with any crime, and says the documents involved in the alleged leak…
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Hundreds Of Files With Personal Information Found In Greenwood
Krystel Sherrell reports: Greenwood police are investigating after nearly a dozen folders of paperwork containing personal information were found in the middle of a busy street. “There were hundreds, if not, close to a thousand pieces of paper,” Jacob Bowling said. “There had to be at least 200 names in there.” It’s an old story…
NYS settles with CoPilot Provider Services over delayed breach notification to 220,000 patients
There’s a follow-up to an incident reported by DataBreaches.net in January and February involving CoPilot Provider Services. As I had reported in January, CoPilot took more than one year to notify individuals of a breach involving their web site, and would not answer any questions as to why it took so long. As I subsequently…
Hacker stole satellite data from US Department of Defence
The following press release was issued by the National Crime Agency today: A computer hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of user accounts from a US military communications system. Sean Caffrey, 25, of Sutton Coldfield, accessed and stole the ranks, usernames and email addresses of more than 800 users of a satellite communications system, as well…
Former Durango Family Medicine patients warned of security breach
Jonathan Romeo reports: Former patients of Durango Family Medicine were alerted last week of a breach of private health information, which could include such things as medical conditions and social histories. On June 6, Terry Cipoletti, an attorney with Caplan & Earnest LLC, sent out a letter about the security breach, saying Durango Family Medicine…
Oklahoma U. shuts down file sharing service after failing to protect thousands of students’ records
Dana Branham reports: OU unintentionally exposed thousands of students’ educational records — including social security numbers, financial aid information and grades in records dating to at least 2002 — through lax privacy settings in a campus file-sharing network, violating federal law. The university scrambled to safeguard the files late Tuesday after learning The Daily had…