The Lewis Palmer School District data security vulnerability and breach continues to concern parents, and I had updated my original post with some observations by Bill Fitzgerald. Now Bill has written his own post on the situation. Giving myself unbridled permission to quote liberally from his thoughtful write-up, here’s part of it: At the 5/19 school…
Category: U.S.
Hackers Claim to Have a Stunning 427 Million Myspace Passwords
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: There’s an oft-repeated adage in the world of cybersecurity: There are two types of companies, those that have been hacked, and those that don’t yet know they have been hacked. MySpace, the social media behemoth that was, is apparently in the second category. The same hacker who was selling the data of more…
CA Health & Longevity Institute patients notified of Bizmatics breach
Seen on dailynews.kaango.com, another Bizmatics client discloses the breach to their patients: (DAILY NEWS) PUBLIC NOTICE: HIPAA Breach Notification. CA Health and Longevity Institute would like to alert patients that in 2015 cyber intruders may have accessed confidential patient information that was stored on an electronic health record system. The clinic uses an electronic health…
VA: Associates in Eye Care notifies patients of breach
Associates in Eye Care notified HHS on May 16 about an incident affecting 971 patients. DataBreaches.net could find nothing on their web site about the incident. The Prince William Times ran a small item that may be related, but the following incident occurred in Virginia, and the HHS report gave Kentucky as the state. Associates in Eye…
CA: Email gaffe at clinic exposes patients’ names and email addresses
Oops. It appears that somehow, Berkeley Endocrine Clinic had spam sent to a number of its patients. Trying to address that, they sent out an email to all patients. Unfortunately, as Dr. Omar Murad explains, the patients’ names and email addresses showed in the TO: field: On April 22, 2016, my office was subject to a spam…
Former Excellon employee’s sentencing delayed in hacking case
Debbie Sklar reports: A sentencing hearing was delayed Monday until Aug. 22 for an Oceanside man who staged repeated attacks on a computer system operated by his former employer, a manufacturer of precision laser and mechanical drilling equipment. Prosecutors are recommending that Conrad Pearson be sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay…