Blue Ridge Surgery Center, an affiliate of Surgical Care Affiliates, has posted a breach notification to patients: Blue Ridge Surgery Center (BRSC), is committed to protecting the confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding an incident that may have involved some of that information. On March 17, 2016, BRSC learned that an employee’s…
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AZ: Gilbert Public Schools email hacked by junior high school student
AP reports: A junior high school student reportedly hacked into the email system of Gilbert Public Schools and sent inappropriate messages to other students. District officials said the Highland Junior High student got access to the teacher’s login information and emailed messages to other students over the weekend. Read more on The Arizona Republic. And the…
Intermedix data breach class action case dismissed
Linn Foster Freedman has an update to the Intermedix data breach litigation filed last year: On May 3, 2016, the parties to the suit agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice with no payment of attorneys’ fees, costs or other expenses to the other party, which means that each party is to bear its own costs….
Open records request goof exposes personal info of 36,000 Poway USD students and their parents
Yet another breach in response to an open records/freedom of information request, this one affecting 36,000 Poway Unified School District students in California. CBS reports: The privacy breach leaked information about every student in the district and it included: medical information, home addresses, nicknames, birthdates, student grades, test scores and parents’ sensitive occupations. The San Diego…
MO: After school closes its doors, personal student records remain inside, unprotected
Monica Evans reports: Former students and parents want to know why student records with personal information are sitting inside an abandoned school at 77th and Wyandotte in Kansas City, Mo. The former Bingham Junior High School building closed in 2001, but an anonymous source gave FOX 4 a box of files containing student names, social security…
Ukrainian hacker admits hacks of MarketWired, PRN, and Business Wire press releases for securities fraud scheme
A Ukrainian hacker today admitted his role in an international scheme to hack into three business newswires, steal yet-to-be published press releases containing non-public financial information, and use the information to make trades that allegedly generated approximately $30 million in illegal profits, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Vadym Iermolovych, 28, of Kiev, Ukraine, pleaded…