Paula Boddington writes: It’s not often that you can write on a topic in ethics whilst rolling around laughing, so I shall take this rare opportunity to make a few comments on the ludicrous breach of privacy that occurred last night when the Personal Genome Project messed up something as simple as an email list. […] So,…
Former Palm Beach County Health Department employee sentenced in data theft for tax refund fraud scheme
AP has an update on an insider breach at the Palm Beach County Department Health, reported previously on this blog: A federal judge imposed the sentence last week on 31-year-old Salita St. Simon of Belle Glade. St. Simon was also ordered to pay more than $19,000 in restitution and serve two years’ probation after her…
FTC may soon turn its regulatory gaze toward data-collecting health apps
Mark Sullivan reports: The Federal Trade Commission recently said it would crack down on the sharing of information about children by mobile apps, and there are now indications that it will turn its regulatory gaze toward apps that collect health data. In late February and early March the commission conducted a small study of health and fitness apps…
Global raids round up hackers using Blackshades RAT
Danny Yadron and Christopher Matthews report: The Federal Bureau of Investigation and foreign police agencies have launched a series of raids around the world at the homes of people linked to a type of hacking software called Blackshades, according to posts on hacker forums and people familiar with the investigation. The software is what experts…
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine students notified of breach by benefits administrator Hubbard-Bert
Hubbard-Bert is the benfits administrator for students at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. On April 24, they learned that spreadsheets containing personal information of some LECOM students was inadvertently exposed on the Internet due to a misconfiguration of a test server on April 14 (yes, a test server should not have live data for exactly…
Former Subway franchise owner admits to POS hacking
There’s an update to a Subway breach previously reported here. Jeremy Kirk reports: A former owner of several Subway fast-food restaurants in southern California pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from a gift card scheme that involved tampering with several other Subway stores’ computerized cash registers. Federal prosecutors accused Shahin Abdollahi, 46, of Lake Elsinore, California,…