Quest Diagnostics is notifying approximately 34,000 patients after their MyQuest patient was hacked and PHI was accessed and obtained. Quest reports that they became aware of the breach on November 28, and that the patient data included name, date of birth, lab results, and, in some instances, telephone numbers. The affected information did not include Social Security numbers, credit…
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Nevada Court Says Juror ID Information Compromised
LasVegasNOW reports that an employee of A&B Printing & Mailing LLC, a printing company the courts use to send out jury summons, may have engaged in wrongdoing: Court officials said Thursday they notified 380 people that their personal identity information may have been released without authorization by a company hired to print juror summonses. […]They said…
Netgear working to fix flaw that left thousands of devices open to attack
Steve Ragan reports: A remotely exploitable vulnerability in the Nighthawk line of Netgear routers was disclosed on Friday. The flaw leaves customers exposed to having their connections hijacked, as someone exploiting the vulnerability can take complete control of the device. Despite having months to address the problem, Netgear has yet to publish a fix. Read…
T-Mobile’s Digits sign-up page temporarily pulled after some subscriber info was exposed
Jacob Siegal reports: On Wednesday afternoon, T-Mobile unveiled a new program called Digits, which will allow T-Mobile subscribers to use a single mobile phone number across multiple devices and use multiple phone numbers on a single device. Unfortunately, the launch of the exciting new Digits beta was quickly overshadowed by a major error on T-Mobile’s website that…
AZ: Hospital employee accused of stealing patients’ credit cards; bought parts to build AR-15
Morgan Tanabe reports: A hospital employee is behind bars for allegedly buying multiple items from a store online with credit cards that he stole from patients. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office recently charged Filip Chudziak of Surprise with fraudulent scheme, fraudulent credit card and identify theft. […] Chudziak, a current Banner Boswell Hospital employee, was…
Joan Jett’s BlackHeart Records leaks thousands of files online
From MacKeeper Security Research Center: This week legendary rocker and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member Joan Jett had an unfortunate reminder of how important cyber security and data protection is in today’s digital world. On Dec 1st the MacKeeper Security Research Center discovered Joan Jett’s BlackHeart Records leaking hundreds of gigabytes of data…