Update: This report has been disputed. BPS claims that their IT department says “this is a dummy test page with no real information.” DataBreaches.net notes that the file was more than 100 pages, populated with information. One record on the first page did appear to be test or dummy data, but because DataBreaches.net did not…
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EXCLUSIVE: Bay Sleep Clinic patients were viewable online during sleep studies
Bay Sleep Clinic (BSC) has more than one dozen locations in California offering sleep medicine diagnostic services. Their site advertises that BSC: Provides monitoring during a complete sleep cycle in our fully equipped, comfortable setting. That monitoring appears to include video monitoring of their patients who, after being wired up to monitors, attempt to sleep in one of their…
LabMD: Is the FTC’s data security joy ride finally coming to an end?
Here’s your must-read today on LabMD’s challenge to the FTC by Gus Hurwitz, who, like this blogger, has been criticizing the FTC’s over-zealous enforcement for the past three years. Unlike this blogger, however, Gus is actually a lawyer. 🙂 When LabMD prevails in the Eleventh Circuit, as I am hopeful they will, I will talk to Gus…
Arizona teen indicted, accused of computer tampering after 911 cyberattack
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted 18-year-old Meetkumar Desai for allegedly carrying out a reckless cyberattack on 911 emergency call systems in Maricopa County. Desai is facing four felony counts of Computer Tampering. On October 27, 2016, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Cybercrimes Unit arrested Desai after 4 law enforcement…
Anti-Trump Protesters Post Personal Information Of Electoral College Members
Blake Montgomery reports: The #NotMyPresident Alliance, a national anti-Donald Trump protest group, has released the personal information of dozens of Electoral College members in states that voted Republican. A spreadsheet distributed to supporters Wednesday included the personal phone numbers, addresses, religions, races, genders, and candidate preference of the electors. The document does not have a…
Corrections director charged with using database to spy on wife’s suspected lover
WYDaily reports: A former James City County on-call police officer and the current director of Colonial Community Corrections is facing invasion of privacy charges after allegedly using a police database to look up information on a man he suspected was having an affair with his wife. Harold Diggs III, 51, director of Colonial Community Corrections…