Bob Conrad reports: The personal information, including social security numbers, of state employees was used to apply for state unemployment claims. That’s according to the Nevada Department of Transportation which notified its employees yesterday of the situation. “We want to make you aware that your Personal Identifiable Information (PII), including your name, date of birth,…
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Rotech Healthcare notifies patients whose details were found in possession of unauthorized individual
Rotech Healthcare Inc., a provider of home respiratory and medical equipment equipment and supplies, notified HHS of a breach involving 957 patients. Here is their notification: Rotech Healthcare Inc. (“Rotech”) would like to notify you of a recent incident that may affect the security of your personal and protected health information. We are providing you…
Athens Orthopedic Clinic patient data still exposed on leak site
DataBreaches.net discovered today that two copies of a paste (data dump) with over 860 AOC patients’ information is still available online if you know where to look for it. I’m providing a redacted screenshot below so patients can get a sense of what these pastes/leaks look like, although I’ve blacked out most of the street addresses, the…
LA: Center for Neurosurgical and Spinal Disorders discloses hack
KPLC-TV reports that Center for Neurosurgical and Spinal Disorders announced a breach that occurred in July. From the center’s news release: Lake Charles, LA – On the morning of July 21, 2016, we detected an unauthorized intruder in one of our computers. Access to this computer was immediately shut down; subsequently, CNSD’s servers and network were taken…
SocialBlade hacked – LeakedSource
From LeakedSource.com: Socialblade.com was hacked in August of 2016. Their main website contains 273,086 users while their forums contains only 13,009. Each record contains an email address, ip address, username, user identifier, and one password. Additionally, data we haven’t imported includes authentication tokens for YouTube, Instagram and Twitter for thousands of users as well as…
Seleznev’s laptop held 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers, says prosecutor
Martha Bellisle of AP reports: When U.S. federal agents arrested a Russian man in the Maldives in 2014, they found 1.7 million stolen credit card numbers on his laptop computer, a federal prosecutor told the jury during opening statements. That was “1.7 million people who had eaten at the wrong restaurant and their personal information…