Just because you don’t remove the laptop from the office, don’t kid yourself that it’s secure. We’ve seen a number of incidents where laptops have been stolen from offices where the failure to encrypt the laptops resulted in breach notice costs for the entities. The latest entity to incur breach costs due to failure to…
Massachusetts provider settles HIPAA case for $1.5 million
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc. (collectively referred to as “MEEI”) has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) $1.5 million to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule. MEEI also agreed to take corrective…
Shared Hosting Fail, 1169 Sites Defaced by BCA
A hacker who claims to be apart of the well known Bangladeshi Cyber Army has attacked a server and as a result they have obtained access to 1169 sites. The attack has left all sites hosted on the server defaced which shows that shared hosting is not always the best way to go, even more so when…
Collage of the mainland hacked, data leaked by @_s0lar_
Updated with statistics at the bottom. A hacker who uses the handle @s0lar has just announced a leak fo data that comes from the Collage of the main land websites databases (www.com.edu) College of the Mainland was a beckoning vision in the minds of community leaders as far back as the early 1960s. The first…
ID Theft Service Tied to Payday Loan Sites
Brian Krebs reports: A Web site that sells Social Security numbers, bank account information and other sensitive data on millions of Americans appears to be obtaining at least some of its records from a network of hacked or complicit payday loan sites. Usearching.info boasts the “most updated database about USA,” and offers the ability to…
UK: Investigation as foster worker’s laptop containing children’s details is stolen
Rory Reynolds and Ian Swanson report from Scotland: An investigation is under way after a laptop computer containing sensitive details on vulnerable children was stolen from a member of a fostering and adoption panel. Police are probing the theft of the device from the home of an independent consultant who conducts reviews of foster and…