There’s an update to a breach previously reported on this site. Last Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida reported that Tonia Bright (53, Tampa) pleaded guilty to two counts of obtaining information from a protected computer for a fraudulent purpose. According to the plea agreement, Bright was a civilian employee of…
Stolen Oregon Health & Science University hard drive contained babies’ protected health information
Data breach incident December 2015 involving stolen OHSU hard drive 02/10/16 Portland, Ore. On December 6, 2015, an OHSU research student’s car was broken into and a hard drive was stolen. The hard drive may have contained health information about Neonatal Intensive Care Unit patients admitted to the unit in 2013 who were enrolled in a…
GA: Veteran given 10 other patients’ records by Atlanta V.A. Medical Center
George Franco reports: A Vietnam veteran from Canton is upset after receiving his medical records, and those of ten other people from the V.A. Medical Center in DeKalb County. Ken Newton told FOX 5 he retrieved his medical files for his attorney in a possible lawsuit concerning Agent Orange. Ken Newton pulled out his medical…
ZA: Espionage feared in laptop theft
Mayibongwe Maqhina reports: The DA suspects espionage might be at play in the theft of laptops belonging to members. KwaZulu-Natal DA MPL Francois Rodgers and another staff member lost their laptops and other equipment in separate theft incidents in Kokstad within a month. Rodgers said the home of a party staff member was broken into on…
Illinois couple blames McBride, Lock for data breach
Molly English-Bowers reports: An Illinois couple is suing a Missouri business, alleging a data breach exposed their Social Security information, among other sensitive documentation. Jennifer Bohnenstiehl and Timothy Bohnenstiehl, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, filed the lawsuit Jan. 25 in St. Clair County Circuit Court against McBride, Lock & Associates of Missouri….
Twitter 0day claim exposes users emails
update: Turns out this isn’t an 0day but more a glitch in twitters own service and security. – Today a twitter user going by the name of @XTM_lulz who claims to be 13… and has a very long history of getting his account suspended on twitter started announcing that they had got a twitter 0day. lol…