Diane Rado reports: Just hours after the state launched a new, multimillion-dollar teacher licensing system last year, an educator logging in was shocked to find a serious security breach. “I discovered that by doing a public search using any educator’s name, ALL of our personal information is available to everyone. This is alarming!” the educator…
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Helping Entities Implement Privacy and Security Protections Medscape Programs
HHS has recently added another training module to its offerings. The latest is on EHRs and HIPAA: OCR has six educational programs for health care providers on compliance with various aspects of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. Each of these programs is available with free Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for physicians and Continuing…
RRRC Rat Resource & Research Center Hacked, Defaced and Data Leaked
Today a hacktivist who uses the handle @G3NTbl4ck has announced a breach on Rat Resource & Research Center. The announcement has been made from twitter and the leaked data first uploaded to MEGA as a 14MB sqlmap log file that contains 8 administrator accounts of which most appear to belong to staff from University of Missouri which…
JSTOR notifying 800 users that account information was accessed by unauthorized individual(s)
JSTOR, a not-for-profit founded to help academic libraries and publishers (and part of ITHAKA), is notifying 800 users of a breach discovered on March 17: RE: Important Security Notice from JSTOR We are writing to let you know that your MyJSTOR account was recently accessed without authorization by a third party. What this means to you…
United Opt Out attacked; site destroyed
Shame on whoever did this: someone attacked United Opt Out, an information resource and advocacy site for parents who want to opt their children out of mandated state tests/high stakes testing. The organization also resists “market-based reforms that seek to privatize and destroy public education.” In a statement sent to DataBreaches.net, Peggy Robertson, one of…
Franciscan Health System notifies more than 12,000 patients after employees fall for phishing scheme (updated)
John Gillie reports: Tacoma’s Franciscan Health System is notifying some 8,300 patients that their personal information — including in some cases medical records and Social Security numbers — may have been shared with computer scammers who accessed staff email accounts. Franciscan estimates more than 12,000 patients nationwide had files potentially breached. Franciscan’s total of 8,300…