Hill Country Memorial Hospital (“Hill Country”) of Fredericksburg, Texas has advised its patients and some job applicants of a privacy event that may have compromised certain personal information. On April 21, HCMH issued the following press release: Hill Country Memorial Hospital (“Hill Country”) of Fredericksburg, Texas has advised its patients and some job applicants of…
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SC: Greenwood County School District 50 notifies employees and parents of breach
Ariel Gilreath reports: About 3,300 people might be affected by a security breach after an unauthorized user logged in to four Greenwood County School District 50 employees’ emails as well as current and former employees’ payroll accounts in January and February. […] “There is also a limited number of students and student-parents impacted.” Read more…
Sadly, laptops stolen from cars are still a thing
From a notification filed on behalf of Donaldson Company, Inc.: On March 24, 2017, a Donaldson employee’s company-issued, user ID and password-protected laptop was stolen from the employee’s vehicle while it was located off Donaldson’s premises. On March 29, 2017, Donaldson discovered that the laptop contained, in electronic form, certain Donaldson employees’ personal information, specifically…
TheDarkOverlord leaks upcoming episode of Orange is the New Black after Netflix doesn’t pay extortion demand (Updated)
After a two-month hiatus, and with pixels to spare, TheDarkOverlord let it be known today that they are still hacking and attempting to extort their victims: And so let it be read that the loathsome giants do too fall. Hello Netflix, we’ve arrived: https://t.co/Fmb1gsZf4a — thedarkoverlord (@tdohack3r) April 28, 2017 “And so let it be read that the…
TN: School board sued by employees over W-2 breach
Tipton County Schools was one of the first districts to reveal that an employee had fallen for a W-2 phishing scheme this year. Now the district is being sued by its employees, it seems. Courthouse News reports: Employees of a rural Tennessee county’s school system claim in a $19 million federal class-action lawsuit that their…
Info on Home Depot customers exposed (but no financial data)
Michael E. Kanell reports: A spread sheet listing about 8,000 customers, along with their transaction and a range of personal information, was posted for an unknown amount of time, on a Home Depot web site. No financial data was part of the list, which did not compare with the 2014 data breach in which hackers…