George Martin and Matt Howard report: An email detailing confidential extenuating circumstances has been sent to every undergraduate student in the American Studies school at UEA, The Tab can exclusively reveal. It contained information about several private issues, including one student with suicidal tendencies, one who had an abortion and one who had been sexually…
Casinos and mining operations targeted by hackers attempting extortion – Mandiant
While a number of U.S. casinos have reported payment card breaches over the past four years, a new report from Mandiant indicates that some casinos in Canada appear to have been under attack from hackers who, after acquiring customer and corporate data, attempt to extort the casinos. Whether all of the Canadian casinos that have…
NYS settles with CoPilot Provider Services over delayed breach notification to 220,000 patients
There’s a follow-up to an incident reported by DataBreaches.net in January and February involving CoPilot Provider Services. As I had reported in January, CoPilot took more than one year to notify individuals of a breach involving their web site, and would not answer any questions as to why it took so long. As I subsequently…
Ca: Health authority pays $1m in privacy lawsuit
Jordan Parker reports: Hundreds of Nova Scotian hospital patients may get to share a $1-million settlement in a case involving breaches of their privacy. Halifax’s Wagners Law Firm has reached a proposed settlement with a former provincial health authority and if it’s approved will offer $1,000 each to nearly 700 plaintiffs they represent in a…
Hacker stole satellite data from US Department of Defence
The following press release was issued by the National Crime Agency today: A computer hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of user accounts from a US military communications system. Sean Caffrey, 25, of Sutton Coldfield, accessed and stole the ranks, usernames and email addresses of more than 800 users of a satellite communications system, as well…
Former Durango Family Medicine patients warned of security breach
Jonathan Romeo reports: Former patients of Durango Family Medicine were alerted last week of a breach of private health information, which could include such things as medical conditions and social histories. On June 6, Terry Cipoletti, an attorney with Caplan & Earnest LLC, sent out a letter about the security breach, saying Durango Family Medicine…