For your “Why is this still happening in 2016?” file: Just one day after New York State Education Department announced it has appointed its first Chief Privacy Officer, WABC reports: In a shocking breach of confidential information, names, addresses, even social security numbers for students and parents were found outside a Bronx school. Eyewitness News has learned…
Roman Seleznev Found Guilty on 38 Counts
I guess the jury didn’t buy the defense’s claim that the government had tampered with the evidence on Seleznev’s laptop. A federal jury yesterday convicted a Vladivostok, Russia, man of 38 counts related to his scheme to hack into point-of-sale computers to steal and sell credit card numbers to the criminal underworld, announced Assistant Attorney…
St. Jude: Pacemaker hacking claims ‘absolutely untrue’
Matt Egan reports: St. Jude Medical rejected claims made by a famous short seller on Thursday that the company’s pacemakers and other lifesaving devices are vulnerable to cyber attacks. The allegations, made in a detailed 34-page report by Muddy Waters founder Carson Block, were enough to spook investors on Wall Street. St. Jude’s stock plummeted…
Tennessee dentist notifies patients of possible data theft by employee
As seen on the web site of Dr. Richard Boehm: As required by law, this notice is to inform our patients that some of your confidential personal information may have been compromised. It has come to our attention that an employee may have printed documents containing some of our patients’ personal information from our computer…
AU: Foster care privacy breaches span more than a decade
Beau Donelly reports: Victoria’s child-protection agency has been breaching the privacy of traumatised children and foster carers across the state for more than a decade and quietly paying them off or upgrading security at their homes if they find out about it. Fairfax Media last month exposed a series of major security breachesout of the Department…
Lost and Stolen Devices Account for One in Four Breaches in the Financial Services Sector: Bitglass
A press release about the financial sector that may be of interest to some readers: CAMPBELL, CA–(Marketwired – Aug 25, 2016) – Bitglass, the total data protection company, today announced the availability of its Financial Services breach report, an analysis of all breaches in the sector since 2006, with data aggregated from public databases and government mandated…