The University of California Davis Medical Center (UC Davis Health System) is notifying patients of a breach that occurred on September 25. According to a letter signed by Shara Merritt Reed, Privacy Program Director for UC Davis Health System, on September 26, an IT employee detected abnormal activity in the email account of one of their providers….
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Touchstone Medical Imaging reveals data breach
Dave Lewis reports: Touchstone Medical Imaging is a company that is based in Brentwood Tennessee. This is a medical firm that provides services such as MRI, CT scans, Ultrasound and Mammography. Today they announced that they suffered a data breach as the result of an open share that was exposed to the Internet. This shared…
Provo City School District suffers data breach
Barbara Christiansen reports: Employees of the Provo City School District may have an extra concern facing them as the district has discovered a data breach. There was a phishing attack and someone gained access to an employee’s email account. That account contained files with sensitive, personal identification information for about half of the district’s employees….
EPIC Urges FTC to Investigate Maricopa County Community Colleges Data Breach
Earlier this year, I reached out to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), to encourage them to join DataBreaches.net in filing a complaint with the FTC concerning the massive data breach at Maricopa County Community Colleges District (MCCCD). I am pleased to see that they have done so, agreeing with me that MCCCD is covered by…
Minnesota student loan data breach not criminal, review shows
Debra O’Connor reports: State computer experts found no evidence of criminal activity when private student data was exposed on the website of a student loan program, according to the Minnesota Office of Higher Education. “We did the big deep-dive security analysis and discovered, of all the log-ins to that site, there were only three that…
Benesse ordered to improve personal info management after data theft
Kyodo News provides an update to a breach involving education services provider Benesse. The breach was disclosed in July: The industry ministry on Friday ordered Benesse Corp. to improve its management of personal information after the company was embroiled in Japan’s biggest-ever data theft. The company’s investigative team has found that some 28.95 million customers…