The Helios Team at 360 SkyEye Labs recently revealed that a hacker group named OnionDog has been infiltrating and stealing information from the energy, transportation and other infrastructure industries of Korean-language countries through the Internet. According to big data correlation analysis, OnionDog’s first activity can be traced back to October, 2013 and in the following two years it…
Home Depot settles breach lawsuit
Jonathan Stempl reports that Home Depot has settled a lawsuit over its 2014 breach. As part of the settlement, the firm will reportedly pay $13 million to compensate consumers and $6.5 million to fund 1-1/2 years of identity protection services for cardholders.
Premier Healthcare notifying 200,000 patients after laptop with PHI stolen from office (UPDATE3)
UPDATE: The stolen laptop was recovered on March 7. See the update here. Original story: Lauren Slavin reports: Premier Healthcare patients are being notified of a possible data breach after a laptop with personal patient information was apparently stolen from the Bloomington office. More than 200,000 Premier Healthcare patients’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers and…
Ca: Medical files of 4,000 Vancouver patients stolen, raising alarms
Susan Lazaruk reports: Thieves who burgled a West Broadway office last month stole the personal medical files of 4,000 Vancouver patients, likely by far the largest privacy breach of medical records in B.C. in 10 years or longer. […] The theft of the 4,000 medical histories, which included names, addresses and B.C. Care Card numbers,…
Some previously unreported breaches
Maryland’s Attorney General’s list for 2015 contains over 500 breach reports, many of which were never covered by the media. Here are two involving health or medical entities or health data, followed by some from the education sector that you may not have known about: Dharani Jasthi DMD PC dba Today’s Dental Associates reported that they: received an…
FTC To Study Credit Card Industry Data Security Auditing
Note: The PCI DSS Council currently lists 346 qualified security assessors. It would be nice to know how the FTC picked the nine it’s questioning, and I’ve sent the FTC an inquiry about that. * * * The Federal Trade Commission has issued orders to nine companies requiring them to provide the agency with information on how…