Jasmine Payoute reports: A data breach at St. Louis Community College has one student searching for some accountability after they released the personal information of nearly 4,000 students. “It’s just very frustrating of how our information was given out twice, I mean where’s the security at,” said a student who asked not to be identified….
Malware warning: Ransomware up, phishing down – and here’s how crooks are changing their tricks
Steve Ranger reports: The volumes of malware in general and ransomware in particular have increased again for the third year running, and as well as pumping out more attacks, cyber crooks are also altering their techniques. Global malware volume is up for the third straight year, with security company SonicWall recording 10.52 billion malware attacks in…
Information Commissioner orders probe into data protection breach following ‘covert’ op by Belfast trust
Seanín Graham reports: The Information Commissioner has ordered an “enforcement investigation” into the Belfast health trust following the loss of “sensitive personal data” linked to a covert operation into allegations of sectarianism. Correspondence sent by the commissioner to a former security guard at Belfast City Hospital acknowledges the “extreme upset” caused by the trust’s secret…
Verity Medical Foundation discloses third incident involving access to employees’ email accounts
Oh dear. When I saw Verity Medical Foundation listed on HHS’s public breach tool this month with more than 14,000 patients impacted, I thought it might be just an updated report for the two incidents that they had disclosed in January. But no. It appears that Verity had yet another breach. Like the first two,…
Ohio dental insurance carrier disclosed breach involving some members’ information
Another day, another hack involving an employee’s email account that held protected health information? From Superior Dental Care in Ohio: March 25, 2019 04:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time CENTERVILLE, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Superior Dental Care (SDC), a dental insurance carrier, today announced that a recent data security incident may have resulted in unauthorized access to some of…
Supreme Court rejects Amazon’s Zappos on data breach lawsuit
Melissa Locker reports: In 2012, 24 million Zappos customers found out that hackers had accessed their personal information. Since then, customers have fought to sue Zappos, Amazon’s online shoe retailer, over the data breach. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal, meaning they can move forward with a class-action lawsuit against the company for…