Rick Steelhammer reports: Some Kanawha County employees whose health insurance coverage is issued through the county may have had personal information accessed during a data breach of the website of a cloud-based human resources servicing firm. Florida-based ComplyRight, which offers an array of HR-related data services to small businesses and government organizations, informed Kanawha County…
NorthStar Anesthesia notifies patients after employee email accounts compromised
Between May 23 and 24, 2018, NorthStar learned of an email phishing campaign that resulted in the compromise of certain employees’ email credentials. NorthStar immediately took steps to respond and commenced an investigation to determine the nature and scope of the incident, as well as determine what information may be affected. The investigation included working…
Vietnam’s New Cybersecurity Law and Push for Internet Sovereignty Reduces Freedom
Scott Ikeda reports: On June 12th the Vietnamese National Assembly voted in a new cybersecurity law. The legislation did not come easily having gone through more than 12 drafts and much debate in government and the business sector. The claimed purposes of the legislation are to increase Vietnam’s Internet sovereignty, that is the data of…
Demands for full investigation into ‘shocking’ data breach
Allison Morris reports: There have been calls for a “rigorous investigation” into a major PSNI data breach that has resulted in hundreds of pages of private citizens’ details being placed into the hands of loyalists. The Irish News revealed yesterday that the digital files, including internet passwords, were unintentionally given to loyalists under investigation by…
Website Found Selling Data of 250,000 MBBS Applicants For Rs. 1 Lakh
Tushar Mehta reports: A new case of breach of data privacy in India has surfaced in which the data of the applicants of a medical entrance exam is being sold blatantly online. Business Standard reports that a website (Nari Technologies) which offers career counseling has hoarded data of more than 250,000 appearing in National Eligibility…
Short Circuit: How a Robotics Vendor Exposed Confidential Data for Major Manufacturing Companies
The UpGuard Cyber Risk team can now disclose that sensitive documents for over a hundred manufacturing companies were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics, “an engineering service provider specialized in automation process and assembly for OEMs [original equipment manufacturers], Tier 1 automotive suppliers as well as our end users.” Among…