WFLA reports that CarePlus Health Plans is notifying 11,200 customers after a series of programming and printing errors resulted in explanation of benefit letters being sent to the incorrect members on January 9 or January 16. The breach was discovered on January 17. According to the statement provided by the insurer: The information disclosed included: Member…
IE: Patients’ details discovered on street
Catherine Shanahan reports: The discovery on a Co Louth street of four pages of doctor’s notes containing patients’ details has been reported to the Data Protection Commissioner. A member of the public found the consultant’s report, which contained the names and dates of birth of at least 18 patients and the units they were treated…
Ron’s Pharmacy Services Notifies Patients of Email Compromise
San Diego, California: February 2, 2018 – Ron’s Pharmacy Services (“Ron’s Pharmacy”) is notifying certain patients of the unauthorized access to certain limited pieces of patient information, including patient names, Ron’s Pharmacy internal account numbers, and payment adjustment information. This information also included prescription medication information for a small number of impacted individuals. Although we…
Hack The Box discloses email gaffe
Nowadays, you are more likely to first learn of breaches on Twitter than from the entity’s site or email, as this thread today from Hack The Box demonstrates: Dear users – we apologise unreservedly for the recent disclosure of email addresses. A statement will follow shortly regarding the cause, impact, and preventative measures that we’ll…
HomeApplicationsXGimp & MaxiPDF apps leak thousands of private photos and docs online XGimp & MaxiPDF apps leak thousands of private photos and docs online
Gaurav Shukla writes: In what could be termed as a massive security breach, three Android apps offered by developer DMobileAndroid were found to be inadvertently sharing thousands of private photos and documents online. The apps offered by the developer are XGimp, MaxiPDF and Docswork, each of which has been downloaded anywhere between 100,000 and 500,000…
Spain Extradites Russian Hacker Allegedly Implicated in Kelihos To New Haven
Edmund H. Mahony reports: Spain on Friday turned over notorious Russian computer hacker Peter Yuryevich Levashov to FBI cyber detectives in New Haven, who have accused him of developing the Kelihos network of hundreds of thousands of infected computers and using it to stuff inboxes with spam, steal secret financial data and spew malicious programming…