John Gillie reports: Tacoma’s Franciscan Health System is notifying some 8,300 patients that their personal information — including in some cases medical records and Social Security numbers — may have been shared with computer scammers who accessed staff email accounts. Franciscan estimates more than 12,000 patients nationwide had files potentially breached. Franciscan’s total of 8,300…
China Embassy in Moscow hacked. Russian deployed equipment to spy on Intertelecom Ukraine. 100k customers IMEI, and l/p leaked.
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How do the FBI and Secret Service know your network has been breached before you do?
Ellen Messmer reports: By all accounts, many of the massive data breaches in the news these days are first revealed to the victims by law enforcement, the Secret Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). But how do the agencies figure it out before the companies know they have been breached, especially given the millions…
Bank drops lawsuit against Target and Trustwave
Jeremy Kirk reports that Trustmark National Bank, one of the two plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by banks against Target and Trustwave, has filed a notice of voluntary dismissal to drop their role in the lawsuit. Because the lawsuit was dropped without prejudice, the bank may re-file the suit at some point, although I suspect…
UK: Barclays customers hit by data theft slam “chicken feed” compensation
Grimsby Telegraph has an update to a breach previously noted on this blog: Barclays Bank has come under fire after offering just £250 in compensation to customers whose confidential files were stolen and sold to rogue City traders. At least 2,000 of the bank’s customers were affected by the theft, which included details of their…
Pharmacy board's actions raise questions about ethics, patient privacy, safety
John Russell reports: A powerful member of the Indiana Board of Pharmacy was quietly involved in discussions with state pharmacy regulators about a $100 million project that benefited his employer — Walgreens pharmacies. And now a government watchdog group and a labor federation say those actions not only violated state ethics laws, but have allowed…