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Fresno State Hard Drive Stolen, 15000 Affected.

At least 15,000 California State University, Fresno “student athletes, sports-camp attendees, and Athletic Corporation employees” were affected by a data breach earlier in the year, according to kmph.com and other news sites. A hard drive, 18 laptops, and other items were reported missing on January 12 from the university’s North Gym building. On the face […] read more

HIPAA Security Trickle-down? Notifications State Sensitive Information Not Contained In Stolen Devices.

According to databreaches.net, two medical entities recently alerted patients of a data breach: Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) and Nevro Corporation. In the case of EMMC, an external hard drive went missing. For Nevro, a number of laptops were stolen during a break-in. Information contained in these devices was not protected with data encryption in […] read more

Penn Medicine Sending Breach Notifications To 1000 Patients Over Stolen Laptop.

Penn Medicine has revealed this past week that a laptop computer with protected health information (PHI) was stolen on November 30. While the details are meager (aside from a short entry at philly.com, which is referenced by databreaches.net, an online search comes up empty), the following was revealed: About 1000 people were affected. The laptop […] read more

24,000 Affected After UNC Health Care Desktop Computer Stolen.

We’re on the cusp of 2018, yet data breaches that smell like 2008 are still making an appearance. According to various news outlets, UNC Health Care has announced a data breach that involved approximately 24,000 patients when a computer – a desktop computer – was stolen during a break-in. The breached data: …includes names, addresses, […] read more

Uber Being Investigated For 2016 Data Breach.

Uber, the ride-sharing Silicon Valley unicorn, is… still in the news. They say that all publicity is good publicity – even the bad ones – but Uber is really taking that saying to its limits, it seems. This week, it was revealed that the company had been hiding a massive data breach that occurred over […] read more

Smartphone Encryption: FBI and Apple At It Again?.

Following the worst mass shooting in Texas history, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced in a press conference that they’re unable to get into the smartphone of the shooter. The reason? Encryption. While the brand of the smartphone was not officially revealed at the time (so as to not alert the “baddies” which one […] read more

Hilton To Pay $700,000 Over 2015 Data Breach, Slow Notifications.

The New York attorney general has announced a $700,000 settlement with Hilton Worldwide Holdings over issues related to the two data breaches that occurred in 2014 and 2015. $400,000 will go to New York. The remaining goes to Vermont which collaborated in the investigation.   Reported Breaches Late, In November 2015 Multinational corporations being hacked […] read more

FBI Unable to Access 7000 Encrypted Devices in 2017.

At the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference, held in Philadelphia last week, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray noted that the FBI has nearly 7,000 encrypted devices it cannot access. Per the phillyvoice.com: In the first 11 months of the fiscal year [2017], federal agents were unable to access the content of […] read more

Equifax Data Breach Continues To Bear Poisoned Fruit.

About two weeks ago, when Equifax first revealed their massive data breach, it was noted by many that the company didn’t appear to be prepared nor equipped to deal with the demands of whatever contingency plans they had prepared for the day they would be hacked. That was on the first day after Equifax had […] read more

Equifax Hack Affects 143 Million SSNs.

Equifax, one of the three largest credit reporting agencies in the US, announced yesterday that they have been hacked. The leaked information includes full names, SSNs, birth dates, and addresses, among other data. It’s not the biggest hack to date – that dubious honor goes to Yahoo, which claimed 1 billion users and 500 million […] read more