The other day, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD commented on Twitter about how doing notifications of breaches or leaks is a pretty thankless job. And it often is. Yesterday and today, however, I feel pretty good about the time I spent trying to make two notifications. The first “it was worth it afterall” experience involved a…
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‘The college won’t tell us anything’: After data breach, Augustana College alumni are demanding answers
As we know, incident response and notification dsn’t always go smoothly, and people may be increasingly frustrated by the lack of information they can obtain.
TX: UMC Physicians Notifies Patients of Compromised Patient Data
Press Release: UMC Physicians (UMCP) is educating employees on approved cloud storage solutions and notifying patients of an incident that may have compromised the privacy of protected health information held by their clinic: UMC Southwest Gastroenterology. UMCP has no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of personal information at this time. On March 12, 2019,…
Augustana Colleges reports a ransomware attack
Add Augustana College to the list of educational institutions getting hit by ransomware. You can read their notification here, although it’s not clear from the notice whether it was student data, employee data, or both that was on the affected server. Nor is it clear how many people had data on the server in question….
Database With Millions of Indian Personal Records Exposed and Hijacked
Bob Diachenko writes: On May 1st, I have discovered an unprotected and publicly indexed MongoDB database which contained 275,265,298 records with personal identifiable information (PII) on Indian citizens, including the following fields: Name Email Gender Education level and area of speciazliation Professional skills / functional area Mobile phone number Employment history and current employer Date of…
CT: Middletown schools thwart malware attack
The Middletown Press reports: An end-of-year ransomware attack, which disabled access to critical business systems and applications for Middletown Public Schools, underscored the need to upgrade both perimeter and endpoint security recently. The district operates an enterprise network connecting 14 buildings with a high-speed (1 Gbps) fiber optic network. Over 6,000 users access educational, business…