May 15, 2013
There was yet another unencrypted laptop theft in April, as Indiana University Health Arnett, Inc. told 10,300 affected patients of the healthdata breach via letter on May 10.
The laptop was in an employee’s car and may have contained patient names, dates …
May 14, 2013
Attackers exploiting Adobe’s ColdFusion app server made off with 160,000 Social Security numbers, and gained access to the driver’s license numbers and names of up to 1 million people logged in the Washington State court system in a data breach …
May 14, 2013
If you’ve encountered online scams before, you know that any email that addresses you by name, continues into a form letter and gives you a link to change your password stinks to high heaven.
Imagine, then, how surprised Name.com customers …
May 8, 2013
PHIPrivacy.net reports that the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) informed 537 former orthopaedic patients that their protected health information (PHI) had been compromised in a recent data breach.
It was a familiar storyline, as a resident physician lost an unencrypted USB computer flash drive that …
May 8, 2013
The incident involves credit/debit card payments for transactions at MAPCO locations between March 19-25, April 14-15 and April 20-21.
Convenience store operator MAPCO Express Inc. has experienced a security breach by third-party hackers that may have compromised the credit/debit card …
April 29, 2013
LivingSocial hacked but company officials say credit card information was not stolen
LivingSocial, the daily deals site owned in part by Amazon, has suffered a massive cyberattack on its computer systems, according to officials at the company.
The breach has …
April 29, 2013
Three police forces have been forced to issue an apology after the personal data relating to more than 1,000 staff members was accidentally sent to a security company.
Forces in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire oversaw an operation in which G4S …
April 29, 2013
Child and Family Services (CFS) of New Hampshire alerted 23 patients recently of a physical data breach after a thief stole their files from the main Manchester, NH location between March 15 and March 18, according to PHIPrivacy.net.
The non-profit agency learned of …
