Will Yakowicz reports: For some entrepreneurs, getting customers is a matter of marketing. For Jobert Abma and Michiel Prins, it’s a matter of sniffing out security vulnerabilities and staving off cyber threats. The two self-taught computer hackers today lead HackerOne, one of the largest white-hat hacking platforms in the world. With $74 million in venture funding from the likes of…
MedWatch LLC notifies members whose protected health information was exposed on the internet
Florida-headquartered MedWatch, LLC is a care management company, providing risk management solutions to the self-funded health plan market. On or about April 13, they started notifying their clients’ health plan members after learning that a vendor misconfiguration error had exposed protected health information between October 20, 2017 and December 15, 2017. MedWatch did not name…
Polk County Health Services notifies mental health patients of breach that began in 2014
Polk County Health Services, Inc., in Iowa recently started notifying 1,071 patients seen at the Crisis Observation Center in Des Moines, Iowa between June 1, 2014 and January 11, 2018. According to a statement issued on April 13, Polk County Health Services, Inc. “accidentally and unknowingly disseminated” personal and protected health information for patients seen during that…
A Private Intelligence Platform, LocalBlox, Leaked 48 Million Personal Data Records
New from UpGuard: The UpGuard Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that a cloud storage repository containing information belonging to LocalBlox, a personal and business data search service, was left publicly accessible, exposing 48 million records of detailed personal information on tens of millions of individuals, gathered and scraped from multiple sources. This data includes…
NC: Healthcare employee gave patient information to fraud suspects, police say
WSOC reports: Patients’ Social Security numbers, dates of birth and names were all handed over to fraud suspects by a Carolina Digestive Health Associates employee. In their search warrant, police said she admitted to sharing around 100 people’s personal information to fraud suspects. She also agreed to let detectives check her phone, and the warrant…
Sangamo Therapeutics Says Co Announced A Data Security Incident Involving Compromise Of A Senior Executive’s Company Email Account
Reuters points us to an 8-k filing by Sangamo Therapeutics in California that discloses a data breach: On April 17, 2018, Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) announced a data security incident involving the compromise of a senior executive’s Company email account. Upon learning of the incident on March 28, 2018, external network security experts were promptly engaged,…