Sade M. Gordon reports: State and local law-enforcement agencies are investigating an apparent hack of data from the Martin County website. Officials were unaware the 3-year-old data — stored offsite — was stolen until a person contacted the county legal department early this week. The caller didn’t threaten the county or ask for ransom, spokesperson Martha Ann Kneiss…
Singapore: ShopBack, RedDoorz report breaches
Fabian Koh reports: Local authorities are investigating a data breach at home-grown e-commerce cashback platform ShopBack, after the firm made public an incident involving unauthorised access to customers’ personal data. Read more on The Straits Times. In other news, Clara Chong reports: Singapore-based hospitality start-up RedDoorz acknowledged on Saturday (Sept 26) that one of its…
Nebraska Medicine was victim of cyber attack
Kevin Westhues reports: Nebraska Medicine confirmed Thursday night that it was the victim of a cyber attack. The attack caused a significant downtime for its information technology system, leading to many postponed appointments throughout the week. The entity issued a statement on Thursday that says, in part: Earlier this week Nebraska Medicine experienced a significant…
Health Insurer Pays $6.85 Million to Settle Data Breach Affecting Over 10.4 Million People
HHS has announced another big settlement and corrective action plan. This one stems from a hack of Premera Blue Cross (PBC) in 2014 that went undetected until March of 2015. DataBreaches.net had covered this incident at the time and the follow-ups that included a class action lawsuit that settled, a settlement with state attorneys general,…
The High Cost of Reporting a Non-Reportable Data Breach
Mark Rasch raises an important issue — the risks of reporting a breach that you may not need to report. Using the Blackbaud incident as his starting point, he writes: In May, cloud provider Blackbaud was the victim of a ransomware attack designed to lock it out of accessing its own data and servers. The…
NEET, JEE aspirants’ data available on public domain, Bhopal medical student seeks CBI probe
Parvathi Benu reports: In a complaint to the Central Bureau of Investigation, a medical student from Bhopal has accused 17 websites of leaking personal information of students who appeared for the Joint Entrance Examination and the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) (Undergraduate and Postgraduate). According to the complaint filed by Vivek Pandey, these websites…