A reader kindly sent in this notification from Hammer Nutrition: NOTICE OF POTENTIAL DATA BREACH Dear Valued Customer, It is with deep regret that I am writing to inform you of an incident involving access to information associated with online purchases made on our website www.hammernutrition.com. We are providing notice to you and other potentially affected customers…
NASA discloses data breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) admitted today to getting hacked earlier this year. In an internal memo sent to all employees, the agency said that an unknown intruder gained access to one of its servers storing the personal data of current and former employees. Social Security numbers were also compromised, NASA…
Almost four dozen Click2Gov breaches later and almost 300,000 affected; data showing up on dark web – report
Jeff John Roberts reports on a new report and analysis by Gemini Advisory: Paying parking tickets or municipal water taxes is never fun—and it’s even worse when hackers have compromised your town’s payment system. Yet, that’s what happened in dozens of towns across the U.S. where cyber crooks have made off with the personal data…
MO: Use BJC’s patient portal to pay your bills? Company announces possible malware breach.
Hana Muslic reports: At least 5,850 people have been alerted about a possible breach of credit card information through Barnes-Jewish Company HealthCare’s online payment portal. On Nov. 19, BJC learned information submitted through the portal could have been intercepted through the use of a malicious computer software that had been installed on their website, a…
University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital notifies 32,000 patients after employee’s email account was accessed without authorization.
The University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital takes seriously the privacy and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding an incident involving some of that information. We are notifying individuals potentially affected by a recent data security incident in which, for a brief period of time, an employee’s email…
How To Protect Healthcare Records In A Zero Trust World
Louis Columbus writes: There’s been a staggering 298.4% growth in the reported number of patient records breached as a result of insider-wrongdoing this year alone according to Protenus. The total disclosed number of breached patient records has soared from 1.1M in Q1 2018 to 4.4M in Q3 2018 alone, 680K of which were breached by insiders. There…