Jeremy Bauer-Wolf reports: Frederick County Public Schools said on Monday that it is likely that students’ personal information was stolen from a state government computer system, a claim that Maryland’s education department nevertheless rebuts. Names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of about 1,000 former Frederick County students who attended school between November 2005 and…
Kanye West Hospital Records Breached, May Lead To UCLA Medical Center Firings
Shari Weiss reports: … It’s said that over the course of his stay, an unknown number of staffers tried to gain illegal access to West’s electronic medical records. Of course, like with every patient, they were to be protected by HIPAA, a law that mandates private health information only be shared with those who have been…
Texas firm exposed fetal and patient ultrasounds (updated)
Corpus Christi-based 4D Sound Diagnostics (3d4dinfo.com and Bump 2 Baby & Beyond) provides elective ultrasounds for women or couples who want an image of their baby. The firm, owned by technologist Michael Rodriguez and formerly based in Louisiana, also provides ultrasound services in doctors’ offices. While many of their clients appear to be in the former group (fetal ultrasounds that…
Private Numbers Exposed – FLOW Customers’ Personal Information Inadvertently Released In Yellow Pages
Jovan Johnson reports: The full scale has not been revealed, but telecommunications company FLOW is scrambling to explain to perhaps hundreds of customers why their telephone numbers and other data that have been private, in some cases for almost a quarter of a century, have been released in the 2017 Yellow Pages telephone directory. Among…
Ethereum Cryptocurrency Forum Suffers Data Breach
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Administrators of the Ethereum Project have announced today a data breach that affected over 16,500 users of the platform’s community forums. Ethereum is the name of the platform on which users can trade the Ether cryptocurrency, while the Ethereum Project is the governing body that manages the platform. The Ethereum forum is where…
CT: 3 arrested in fraud scheme that allegedly used veterans’ information
Fox61 reports: STAFFORD SPRINGS — Exactly nine months after police began investigating the possibility that a local company was committing fraud and larceny, three people have been arrested. […] It was determined that the employees of Shark Cycle were stealing the personal information — names, birthday and social security numbers — of customers who were veterans. They…