AP reports: The FBI is investigating after computer hackers managed to steal about $4.2 million in funds from a pension system for retired Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers and other state law enforcement officers, state officials said Friday. A notice posted on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System website said the agency notified the FBI and…
Face Recognition App Leaks Photos Of Suspects From Madurai Police Database
Kritti Bhalla reports: In a major privacy breach, Tamil Nadu police’s Madurai unit’s database of thousands of ‘suspected criminals’ was made public without its knowledge. The database included names and photographs of the people under the scanner. The leaked data also included OTP codes, administrator password and details of the police officers using the app….
Unalaska recovers $2.3M after phishing email scam
Hope McKenney reports: More than $2.3 million dollars has been returned to the City of Unalaska, after a nearly two-month federal investigation into a fraudulent financial request. Between May 15 and July 9, the city paid out $2,985,406.10 to a fraudulent bank account as a result of a phishing email scam. The sender of the…
Alive Hospice’s breach notification required a second breach notification
It occasionally happens that a breach or incident response creates a second incident of its own. That seems to be the case with Alive Hospice, as this newest press release suggests, but does this require second notification to HHS/OCR? My first impression is that it would, but I’m interested to hear what HIPAA lawyers might…
No municipality paid ransoms in ‘coordinated ransomware attack’ that hit Texas
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A coordinated ransomware attack hit 22 Texas local governments, but none of the impacted municipalities paid ransom demands, Texas state officials said this week. Three weeks after the incident took place, the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) said that more than half of the impacted entities are now back to operations…
Oh good grief, Saturday edition
Seen on Twitter: BREAKING: Dutch hospital that just got fined 460.000 euro by Dutch DPA for staff snooping in medical files, is in the news today again: staff used medical files as grocery list. Left them in shopping cart supermarket. Compliance is a cultural issue!https://t.co/LhVELzgL8J #GDPR — Jeroen Terstegge (@PrivaSense) September 7, 2019 A google…