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...
View ArticlePenn 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,...
View ArticleFresno 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...
View ArticleAustralia’s Notifiable Data Breaches Law Nets 31 Reports In 3 Weeks
A new Australian law appears to be succeeding in finally unveiling the current state of data breaches in the Land Down Under. According to a release by the country’s information commissioner’s office...
View ArticleSurvey Says Data Breaches Result In Long-Term Negative Impact
According to darkreading.com, a recent survey commissioned by CA Technologies has shown that there can be serious repercussions for companies that fall victim to data breaches. If the survey’s...
View ArticleEquifax Already Had a Data Breach Before It Was Hacked In 2017
According to wsj.com (paywalled), Equifax had already suffered a data breach before the data breach that made the company famous around the world. In 2015, two years before the hack that started with a...
View ArticleConvicted Terrorist Steals Hard Drive in Brussels Main Justice Offices
According to the Associated Press, a man who was convicted (and released from prison) for terrorist activities is suspected in the theft of an external hard drive from a forensic doctor’s office. The...
View ArticleSeattle University Alerts Over 2000 Faculty & Staff Of Lost Laptop
Seattle University announced a couple of weeks ago that an unencrypted laptop was lost while an employee was “commuting on the bus.” An IT investigation drew the conclusion that “an offline email cache...
View ArticleMoody’s Downgrades Equifax “Because Of Data Breach”
Equifax had a data breach, a preventable one (or so they say *), in 2017. It was the biggest in US (and world) history, a dubious honor that could potentially be retained for a good long while. The...
View ArticleFacebook Alerts Possible Data Breach, Unwittingly Interferes With Investigation
According to morningstar.com, Facebook inadvertently interfered with a terrorist investigation when it recently alerted users that their smartphones had been “hacked by an ‘advanced cyber actor'” via...
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