Regina Dennis reports: Texas State Technical College is trying to track down hundreds of former students after learning that an Internet server breach last month could have included their personal identification information. TSTC information technology specialists on Jan. 30 discovered that someone attempted to illegally access a server that contained personal information for the nearly…
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Registration is open for the 4th International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy in Washington, D.C.
Register now for the 4th International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy on June 4-5, 2014, in DC. The annual Health Privacy Summit is a unique, inclusive event, which offers the only forum in the world for high-level, thoughtful discussions about the most urgent national and international health privacy issues and solutions. Every year, we aim…
1,800 University of California – Davis Medical Center patients notified of breach after 3 clinicians fall for phishing scheme
The University of California Davis Medical Center has sent out notification letters to patients affected by a breach that occurred in December. In a letter dated January 30, Shara Merritt Reed, Privacy Program Director for the UC Davis Health System, writes that UCDHS recently learned that a medical provider’s email account was compromised by a…
Data for 685 Fairfax students mistakenly posted online
T. Rees Shapiro reports that Fairfax County School District has had yet another breach involving student data: Personal information for hundreds of Fairfax County public school students was mistakenly posted on the school system’s Web site, exposing their school identification numbers, birth dates, home addresses and phone numbers in what parents described as a breach…
Commission Statement Marking the FTC’s 50th Data Security Settlement – January 31, 2014
Today marks a milestone for the Federal Trade Commission – the announcement of the Commission’s 50th data security settlement. What started in 2002 with a single case applying established FTC Act precedent to the area of data security has grown into a vital enforcement program that has helped to increase protections for consumers and has encouraged companies to make…
11 high school students disciplined for keylogging teachers’ computers
Cyrus Farivar has the update to the case of students involving in hacking to change grades at Corona del Mar High School: A hacking scandal involving keyloggers and electronic grade-changing at a high school in Newport Beach, a well-to-do area of Southern California, has resulted in the expulsion of 11 students. TheOrange County Register reported Wednesday that six…