What follows is a somewhat unsatisfactory notice. It does not indicate when the email accounts were compromised. It does not indicate when the firm first discovered it or how they discovered it. It does not indicate how many people are being notified by them. It does not explain to patients why a holdings firm has…
Choice Cancer Care Treatment Center notifies patients of May data security incident
IRVING, Texas, Nov. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Choice Cancer Care Treatment Center (“Choice Cancer Care”) operates cancer treatment centers in Texas where it offers individualized cancer treatment plans for patients. Choice Cancer Care is providing notice of an incident that may have involved the privacy of certain patient information in its care. While, to date, the investigation found no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of…
Companies That Experience a Data Breach Will Underperform the Stock Market Over the Long Run
Nicole Lindsey reports: Data breaches at the world’s largest corporations are becoming a commonplace affair, but are investors on Wall Street really paying attention? A new study from UK-based pro-consumer website Comparitech looked at the recent stock market performance of 28 different companies that recently suffered a massive data breach of some kind (defined as…
NC: Former Operator of Illegal Booter Services is Sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Computer Damage and Abuse
WASHINGTON – An Orland Park, Illinois, resident was sentenced yesterday to 13 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release on one count of conspiracy to cause damage to internet-connected computers for his role in owning, administering and supporting illegal booter services that launched millions of illegal denial of service, or DDoS, attacks…
Select Health Network reveals compromise of employee email accounts that may impact an unspecified number of patients
The following press release is by what appears to be a business associate under HIPAA. It does not name the covered entities whose patients or insured members may have been impacted. Will we see notices from those covered entities? Probably not, unless more than 500 were affected for a particular covered entity. The notice also…
150 infosec bods now know who they’re up against thanks to BT Security cc/bcc snafu
Gareth Corfield reports: BT Security managed to commit the most basic blunder of all after emailing around 150 infosec professionals who attended a jobs fair – using the “cc” field instead of “bcc”. The email, shown to The Register by a non-trivial number of aggrieved recipients, thanked them for attending the Westminster Cyber Expo and popping by…