From YLE: A computer containing thousands of people’s private medical data was found in a ditch on a Turku motorway, according to the daily Turun Sanomat. The patients listed include politicians, businessmen and top athletes. The computer belongs to a private chiropractor, and the patient records and data were not password protected. The staff at…
Dialogic, Sikorsky, and Thompson Dunavant report recent breaches
A few recent breach reports to the New Hampshire Attorney that did not garner media attention: On August 8, California-based Dialogic, Inc. sent out notifications to employees whose names and Social Security Numbers were on equipment stolen during a break-in on July 17. Also on August 8, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation)…
Thirty-one Gifts, two breaches, and a bunch of notification letters
It must be headache-inducing enough to investigate one security breach. To discover a second breach while investigating the first, well, pass the Prozac. On August 8 , lawyers for Ohio-headquartered Thirty-One Gifts, LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that while investigating how administrative credentials had been misappropriated and used to transfer some consultants’…
Epson Korea says 35 million 350,000 customers’ data hacked (updated)
Update: Yonhap News issued another story that puts the number at 350,000, but didn’t correct their original url, cited below. Good grief – yet another hack in South Korea affecting 35 million?! Yonhap News Agency reports: Epson Korea Co., the South Korean unit of Japan’s Seiko Epson Corp., said Saturday that its Web site has…
Couple of dumps by @th3jasper
Hey all well recently we did a post on the jasper, over the past 24hrs they have dump a few data base details from various sites. The sites that have been hit are https://www.maxnews.lk/ and https://esoft.lk/ and a radio stations website. https://www.sho.rtify.com/8552 https://www.sho.rtify.com/8513 https://sho.rtify.com/8502 Also they have made a statement that suggests more government hacks to come…
Mount Sinai Medical Center reports two stolen laptops contained Social Security Numbers and diagnoses
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, notified HHS of a laptop theft on June 7th involving PHI on 712 patients. The hospital posted a public notice on its site on July 11th: Public Notice July 11, 2011 NEW YORK, NY – July 11, 2011 /Press Release/ –– Mount Sinai Multispecialty Physicians Practice announced today that two…