Over on DataBreaches.net, a number of people are reporting that they have received notification letters for the Maricopa Community Colleges breach, but that they’ve never attended the college and have no idea why they’re receiving letters. Today, I got an email about a breach reported on this site (phiprivacy.net). I’m redacting it, but it says:…
Russian hackers stole 54 million Turkish citizens’ ID data: Claim
OK, I’m posting this with a caution that it has not really received any official confirmation and I don’t know if any proof of hack or claims has been posted anywhere at this point: Russian hackers have seized 54 Turkish million citizens’ ID data because Turkey’s political parties and the country’s Supreme Election Committee (YSK)…
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services warns of possible information leak after computer stolen
WCPO reports: Ohioans who’ve recently applied for or received unemployment benefits are advised to pay close attention to their bank accounts and other personal information after a computer was stolen from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The department announced on its website that the stolen hard drive possibly contains names, addresses and Social Security…
VA: Fairfax County Health notifies 1,499 patients after subcontractor error exposes info online
Jennifer van der Kleut reports: The Fairfax County Health Department has mailed letters to 1,499 clients of the Bailey’s Health Center, located in Falls Church, to inform them of an unauthorized disclosure of some protected health information. View the letter to Bailey’s Health Center clients. This is one of those situations where it really pays to have Business…
Pointer: Lanap and Implant Center breach
For those of you who haven’t caught on that I have a slew of other breach reports over on PHIprivacy.net, I thought I’d give you a pointer to a really horrific breach I’ve been covering over there this week. It involves 11,000 patients’ data (yes, including SSN and DOB) winding up on a torrent site…
Lanap and Implant Center patients never told that their Social Security numbers were – and are – still online for download?!
Sometimes it pays to keep Googling or re-checking with different search strings. Today, I managed to locate the text of what appears to be the The Lanap and Implant Center’s substitute (media) notice on the breach I’ve previously discussed here and here. First, the text of the notice: Public Notice or Legal Notice #: 4095248…