Last month, I pointed readers to a news report out of Moore, Oklahoma about how Tonya Smith, a former employee of Prime Communications, had reportedly been sent an email with personal information on 8,000 of their employees. The mistake occurred on December 11, 2019 after Smith had been terminated by Prime for performance issues. In…
TN: The Little Clinic notifies more than 10,000 patients after discovering glitch in online appointment system
The following is a press release: NASHVILLE, Tenn.May 22, 2020– The Little Clinic (TLC) announced today that patients could have had their protected health information (PHI) accessed due to a failure in TLC’s online appointment functionality. The Little Clinic made the discovery internally and found if a patient made an appointment and modified that appointment online,…
Leesburg Woman Sentenced To 48 Months In Prison For Aggravated Identity Theft And Wire Fraud
There’s an update to an insider breach previously reported on this site. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida on May 19: Ocala, Florida – Senior U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Stacey Lavette Hendricks (49, Leesburg) to 48 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft and wire…
NetWalker Ransomware Group Enters Advanced Targeting “Game”
Advanced Intelligence, LLC released a report on NetWalker Ransomware Group. From the background and summary of their report: Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, there has been a drastic increase in the number of cyberattacks targeting the healthcare industry. The NetWalker ransomware syndicate is no exception to this trend. NetWalker responsible for such attacks as a high-profile…
Florida joins ranks of states with unemployment application portal data security issues
And then there were 5. I’ve previously noted that four states have reported data security problems with their state portals for pandemic-related unemployment insurance: Arkansas, Illinois, Ohio, and Coloradans. Today, I see that Florida has joined the ranks of those that were alerted to data security issues. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity hasn’t said…
Indonesia probes breach of data on more than two million voters
Channel News Asia reports: JAKARTA: Indonesia’s election commission is investigating the release of 2.3 million voters’ private information on a hacker website along with a threat to release of the data of about 200 million people, the agency said on Friday (May 22). The electoral data from the world’s fourth most-populous nation was posted anonymously…