Melinda Miller and Stephen Watson report: Confidential information about more than 10,200 patients of Dent Neurologic Institute was inadvertently sent to more than 200 patients Monday in an email attachment. The personal information – including patients’ names and home addresses, their doctors’ names, last appointment dates and their email addresses – was contained on an…
CERT probing security breach at IT firms
ElectraCard Services was one of two payment processors in India named in conjunction with that massive $45M cyberheist. The other one is reportedly EnStage, Inc. Read more on ManoramaOnline.com.
Bloomberg Names Compliance Chief After Client Data Breach
Catherine Dunn reports: Bloomberg LP is looking to repair the ongoing fallout over a controversial breach of client data, and the financial information company is adding a new compliance officer to help. Bloomberg executive Steve Ross will now lead the company’s client data compliance office as Bloomberg continues to field questions over the division between its newsgathering operation and its core…
NC: Presbyterian Anesthesia reports data breach affecting nearly 10,000 (updated)
Andrew Dunn reports: The credit card information of nearly 10,000 people may have been accessed in a data breach at a Charlotte medical practice. Presbyterian Anesthesia Associates has disclosed that a hacker broke through a security flaw of the practice’s website to gain access to a database of personal information, including names, contact information, dates…
Fed, Treasury Looking Into Bloomberg Data Security
William Launder reports: Bloomberg LP’s disclosure that it had restricted newsroom access to certain customer data prompted an inquiry from the Federal Reserve, the Fed said, as well as the Treasury, according to a person familiar with the situation. “We are looking into this situation and have been in touch with Bloomberg to learn more,”…
City of Mobile Police Hacked & Data Leaked by Turkish Ajan
Turkish Ajan hacker group has today announced a leak of data from the City of Mobile Police (https://www.mobilepd.org). The City of mobile police is located in the town of Mobile which claims to be the 3rd largest city in the U.S. State of Alabama and is the official police department for the county and surrounding area. >…