Lori Carlson reports: Staff and administrators at Prior Lake City Hall spent nearly four days battling a computer virus that struck the city’s HVAC system on the evening of Wednesday, June 8. City Manager Frank Boyles said a subsequent internal investigation showed no evidence of a data breach of personal information, such as the city’s…
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ENT and Allergy Center of Arkansas notifying patients of Bizmatics security incident
Add the ENT and Allergy Center in Arkansas to the list of covered entities notifying patients of a breach involving Bizmatics, Inc. In a statement dated May 31, that is linked from their web site, Stephen Cashman, M.D., states that the practice was initially notified of the incident in January, 2016. But, “At that time, Bizmatics could…
Former Goldman Sachs Banker Barred From Industry Over Fed Leak
Jesse Westbrook reports: A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who pleaded guilty to receiving documents that had been misappropriated from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has been banned from the financial industry. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed to a settlement with Rohit Bansal that bars him from any association with…
Two central Ohio men accused of stealing information from state
Jim Woods reports: A former state employee from Dublin and a private contractor from Hilliard were indicted Thursday on federal charges accusing them of a fraudulent scheme that involved stealing a computer software program from the state of Ohio. Jatinder Singh, 42, of Dublin, and Anju Vallabhaneni, 49, of Hilliard, were indicted on federal charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and destruction of records. The offenses…
Walmart vendor error exposed limited patient information
Walmart, who reported a breach involving pharmacy records in March, has disclosed another breach to HHS. This one, reported June 8, reportedly affected 27,393 patients. Thankfully, it does not seem to have exposed particularly sensitive information. DataBreaches.net asked Walmart for a statement describing the incident, and received the following statement: Recently, we learned that the company…
Update on Chicago employees’ retirement account breach
You may have missed it in the crush of other news this week, but I had noted that Nationwide Retirement Solutions is investigating how the retirement accounts of 91 Chicago municipal employees were breached earlier this month. Today, Karin Price Mueller of NJ.com has an update that suggests this was not a hack, but data theft to obtain…