John Leyden of The Register reports that the EC-Council sent out a notification to its members about the February breach noted previously on this blog. Here’s the full text of their message: On Saturday, February 22nd, 2014, the ICANN-accredited domain registrar of EC-Council was compromised and as a result, EC-Council suffered a DNS Poisoning attack,…
Loyaltybuild reopens for business after huge data breach
Elaine Edwards reports: The company at the centre of the biggest data breach ever dealt with in Ireland has recommenced trading and said it had invested €500,000 in new security systems after the criminal attack last year. Ennis-based Loyaltybuild, which provides services to companies running holiday break promotions, was hit by the breach late last year and it…
More University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employees report becoming tax refund fraud victims
Karen Zapf and Adam Brandolph report that as many as 322 UPMC employees have been affected by the breach, the system said last week. Read more on TribLive. Note that although the TribLive headline and story referred to this as a UPMC breach, I don’t think it’s actually been confirmed that UPMC had a breach,…
Some pharmacy breaches we didn't know about
While going through NYS’s response to a FOI request I submitted, I came across a breach submitted by American Express that affected 49 people. Because it’s less than 500, it would not appear on HHS’s breach tool, and I never saw anything in the media about it. Reportedly, the breach involved malware intrusions affecting two…
Sutherland burglars snagged City of Hope patient data (updated)
Among those affected by the burglary at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions were an undisclosed number of City of Hope patients. You can read City of Hope’s notification letter on the California Attorney General’s website. Patient information on the unencrypted computers included patients’ names, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, medical record numbers, account number and/or diagnoses. City…
University of Maryland data breach smaller than first thought
WBAL reports: The data breach at the University of Maryland is smaller than first announced. According to the university’s website, there were 287,580 records breached, about 21,499 fewer than first reported. But here’s the better-late-than-never news of note: The school said 78 percent of the records in the affected database have now been permanently purged,…