Joel Locsin reports: Following a data breach discovered last week, URL shortening service Bitly has enabled two-factor authentication to protect its account holders. In a blog post, Bitly chief technology officer Rob Platzer also said they traced the compromise to an unauthorized access to the account of one of the company’s employees. “We immediately enabled two-factor authentication…
Ultimate Software dropped from federal lawsuit against UPMC
Not surprisingly in light of their statement that UPMC wasn’t even a client of theirs, the UPMC employee who has sued UPMC over a data breach affecting 27,000 employees has now dropped Ultimate Software from her lawsuit.
Ca: Eastern Health Authority discloses employee improperly accessed 20 patients' records
CBC News reports: Eastern Health reported Tuesday that an employee inappropriately accessed 20 patient records in a privacy breach. According to a release from the health authority, the administrative employee has resigned in light of the investigation. Read more on CBC. A statement linked from Eastern Health’s home page says: May 13, 2014 – St….
New Zealand dentists hit by online privacy breach
Thomas Mead reports: Thousands of Kiwi dentists have been stung by a serious privacy breach which saw their private information published to the internet. The accidental release of names, phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and passwords affects members of the New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA). A 3news.co.nz investigation can reveal the private information may have…
Boulder Community Health reports 7 more victims, says unlocked bins aren't to blame
Alex Burness has an update to a breach recently noted on this blog: Boulder Community Health has now identified a total of 16 patients — up from nine Wednesday — who have received letters from an anonymous source, containing copies of their own medical records stolen from an undetermined area around the hospital’s Foothills campus. In…
Autistic Hacker, “Eekdacat,” Helped FBI Nail Anonymous hacker, “Kayla”
William Bastone and Andrew Goldberg report: In an effort to identify leaders of Anonymous, the FBI arrested an autistic New York man and then used him as a cooperating witness to help snare a notorious fellow hacker who was subsequently indicted for his central role in a series of high-profile online attacks, The Smoking Gun…