ROCKVILLE, MD – January 19, 2018 – Westminster Ingleside King Farm Presbyterian Retirement Communities, Inc. (“Ingleside”) has become aware of a data security incident that may have involved the protected health information of our residents. Although at this time there is no evidence of any attempted or actual misuse of anyone’s information as a result…
Email gaffe by Coventry University staff exposed 1,930 students’ details
The Coventry Telegraph reports that an email gaffe exposed some limited information on almost 2,000 students: Coventry University is being investigated after students’ confidential data was leaked to almost 2,000 people, the Telegraph can reveal. The university has apologised for the security breach and insists no passwords, financial or residential information was revealed. Confidential student…
E-on discloses breach that began in 2013
A customer who received this notification via e-mail sent it along to DataBreaches.net. The firm has publicly acknowledged a problem on their Twitter page: Statement on the Cyber-Attack at e-on January 25, 2018 Dear Community of e-on Users — Safeguarding your personal and financial information is one of our top priorities. In late November 2017,…
Medical practice turns away patients due to Allscripts incident
You read press releases and sometimes, you wonder whether the entity is downplaying the impact. Anyway, I had been semi-following the reporting on the Allscripts ransomware attack and was almost believing that this was limited impact. Almost. Until I read Mike Brookbank’s reporting. It begins: It is some of the most intimate information about ourselves….
Ca: Metrolinx claims computers hit by North Korean cyberattack
CBC News reports: An Ontario transit agency says it was in the crosshairs of a North Korean cyberattack earlier this month. The attack was a virus, routed through Russia, that infected computers at Metrolinx, according to a source at the agency who spoke on condition of anonymity. Spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins confirmed to CBC Toronto that the attack took…
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Settlement With Aetna Over Privacy Breach Of New York Members’ HIV Status
I covered the news of this settlement last week, but note that in the process of investigating this breach, the attorney general’s office discovered a previous breach, too: NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced a settlement with Aetna Inc. (“Aetna”), following claims that Aetna revealed the HIV status of approximately 2,460 New…