Following the arrest of a Quebec teen last week in the hacking of a Bell Canada supplier, a second person associated with #NullCrew (@NullCrew_FTS) has now been arrested. Kim Janssen reports: A hacker who targeted big businesses — including Comcast and Canadian Bell — as well as schools, including the University of Virginia, will face…
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Privacy advocate files complaint with FTC over Maricopa County Community College District data breach
The 2013 breach at Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) in Arizona affected approximately 2.5 million faculty, staff, vendors, and students, making it the largest breach involving student information ever reported by a U.S. institution of higher education. A complaint by this privacy advocate alleges violations of the Safeguards Rule. Having researched and reported on breaches for about…
No information security breach found in wake of charter school’s mailer to Jersey City parents
Michaelangelo Conte reports: A Sherman Avenue charter school did not access the Jersey City school system’s computers to obtain personal information about district students for a mailer, a district official said this afternoon. The school district had been concerned that the METS Charter School obtained the information form the city school data system but an…
Plastic Surgeon’s “Before & After” Photos Violate NY Publicity Rights–Manzione v. Mashkevich
Eric Goldman writes: Dr. Grigoriy Mashkevich performed rhinoplasty on Catherine Manzione and took before-and-after photos of Manzione. Confusingly, Manzione apparently signed two seemingly inconsistent form consent agreements regarding the photos. One said: I do not want my photos to be used. I understand that these photos will be placed in my confidential records only. Another…
So how’s 2014 going, you ask? Not well, not well…..
Risk Based Security and Open Security Foundation have released a report for Q1 of 2014. The first bullet gives a good indication of what kind of year 2014 is turning out to be: There were 669 incidents reported during the first three months of 2014 exposing 176 million records. Of especial interest to me were…
Penn State U. – Hershey Patient Info Security Breach
Penn State Hershey Medical Center is notifying 1,801 patients that their health information could potentially be accessed by people not involved in their care. The medical center says the information is related to a type of test ordered by its women’s health or family medicine doctors and other medical offices in the community that use Penn…