Penn Highlands Brookville Provides Public Notice of Data Security Incident BROOKVILLE, PA – OCTOBER 13, 2014 – Penn Highlands Brookville, a high quality healthcare service for the Brookville area, today confirmed a data security incident which may involve personal information for patients of Barry J. Snyder, MD. On August 14, 2014, Penn Highlands Brookville…
Home Depot now facing 21 class-action lawsuits over data breach
David Allison provides a litigation update here. The next question is how many of them will be dismissed because of lack of standing.
University of California Davis Medical Center notifies 1,326 patients after doctor's email account compromised
The University of California Davis Medical Center (UC Davis Health System) is notifying patients of a breach that occurred on September 25. According to a letter signed by Shara Merritt Reed, Privacy Program Director for UC Davis Health System, on September 26, an IT employee detected abnormal activity in the email account of one of their providers….
Alleged Broadway Grill hacker now charged with stealing and selling 2 million credit card numbers
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In support of Hong Kong protesters, Anonymous releases data from Chinese government sites
Chris Luo reports: The Anonymous group of computer hackers yesterday followed up on its threat made on Friday to release data from mainland government websites. It released hundreds of phone numbers and email addresses of the Ningbo Free Trade Zone in Zhejiang province and a job-search site run by the Changxing county administration, also in…
Experian: credit data ‘very secure’
Presumably with a straight face, Marni Usheroff reports on an interview with Craig Boundy, Experian North America CEO: Q. Does Experian actually hold onto your data? Does it have a storage facility where it is held? A. All the information that we store is held on computer servers in very secure – both physically and information security…