Fox47 reports: An attack on Ingham Intermediate School District’s online network and the person police say is responsible was one of its own students. The incident happened in February 2017. On Wednesday FOX 47’s Alani Letang learned more on that student, who now faces criminal charges after shutting down the district’s internet servers. Police say…
TX: Victoria ISD notifies employees of breach involving their personal information
Let’s remember that k-12 school districts often maintain medical information on their employees, as this notification from Victoria Independent School District in Texas reminds us. In this case, some employee email accounts were inappropriately accessed between July and October 2017. Some of the emails in those accounts contained employees’ personal information, including “name, address, Social…
Ca: Saskatchewan NDP wraps privacy breach investigation, voter list accessed
Sarah Mills reports: The Saskatchewan NDP has concluded its privacy breach investigation into one of its own members. Rylee Schumacher admitted to using the voter list to look up the police officer investigating her rape allegation. In a written statement the NDP confirmed the investigation had wrapped up saying it takes the protection of personal privacy…
How These Two Dutch Entrepreneurs Hacked 100 Companies to Become One of the Biggest Hacking Platforms in the World
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…