Shari Weiss reports: … It’s said that over the course of his stay, an unknown number of staffers tried to gain illegal access to West’s electronic medical records. Of course, like with every patient, they were to be protected by HIPAA, a law that mandates private health information only be shared with those who have been…
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CT: 3 arrested in fraud scheme that allegedly used veterans’ information
Fox61 reports: STAFFORD SPRINGS — Exactly nine months after police began investigating the possibility that a local company was committing fraud and larceny, three people have been arrested. […] It was determined that the employees of Shark Cycle were stealing the personal information — names, birthday and social security numbers — of customers who were veterans. They…
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is sending emails to users about a Lynda.com data breach
Neowin reports: LinkedIn has begun informing Lynda.com users of a data breach, emailing customers to say that “an unauthorized third party breached a database that included some of your Lynda.com learning data, such as contact information and courses viewed.” The company says that there is no evidence to support the thought that passwords were included…
Bleacher Reports Suffers Data Breach as “Unauthorized Party” Accesses User Data
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Sports news portal Bleacher Report announced today a security breach that affected readers that signed up for accounts on the site. At the time of writing the number of affected users isn’t known, and a request for comment from Bleeping Computer was not returned at the time of publishing. According to an…
TX: CCISD notifies students of breach of personal info
The Corpus Christi Independent School District is offering 443 of their former students and one current student free credit monitoring service, after their Social Security numbers were published to the internet. Source: KRISTV
MI: Alpena Public Schools Superintendent says ransomware was “just some inconvenience”
David Holsted reports: Computer hackers didn’t get money out of Alpena Schools. The district is the latest victim of ransomware, a denial-of-access attack that prevents computer users from accessing files. However, Superintendent Andrea Martin said the district did not pay the ransom, and no harm was done to the files. No important information was lost….