Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Wyoming has posted a data security incident notice on its website. According to the notice, on or about April 5, 2019, CRMC became aware of suspicious activity related to certain employee payroll accounts and launched an investigation. They ultimately determined that some CRMC employee accounts were accessed without authorization between…
Police Procedural: How South Carolina Arrest Records Were Exposed
UpGuard reports: The UpGuard Research team can now disclose that a cloud storage bucket containing personally identifiable information (PII) for thousands of people in the South Carolina justice system has been secured. An employee of Spartan Technology, a South Carolina tech company, had uploaded a collection of backups to the AWS S3 storage service. The data collection…
Apple has ‘deep concerns’ that ex-employees accused of theft will flee to China
Stephen Nelling Apple Inc on Monday told a federal court it has “deep concerns” that two Chinese-born former employees accused of stealing trade secrets from the company will try to flee before their trials if their locations are not monitored. At a hearing in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, prosecutors argued…
455,000 Turkish card details put up for sale, web skimmers suspected
Catalin CImpanu reports: Details for more than 455,000 Turkish payment cards are currently being sold online, ZDNet has learned today. The card dump was put up for sale on Joker’s Stash, the internet’s largest carding shop, security researchers at Group-IB told ZDNet. Read more on ZDNet.
Months-Long Privacy Breach Involving Meal Tray Tickets at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital: DPH
Bay City News reports: The San Francisco Department of Public Health announced Tuesday a privacy breach at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital involving patients’ meal tray tickets that were improperly disposed into regular garbage bins. The tickets, which contained patients’ full names, birth month and day, bed/unit location at the hospital, diet information and menu…
Biggest data leaks of 2019 that hit Indians
Prabhjote Gill provides a recap of some of the biggest breaches and data leaks affecting Indian residents in 2019. You can read her report on Business Insider. It’s a by-the-numbers type of analysis, but it omits one incident that has numbers higher than one of the ones on their list. The 1to1Help.net leak was not…