Approximately 2,500 people were identified about a potential data breach in the Kentucky-based Cabinet for Health and Family Services on Tuesday. This breach was suspected after an employee responded to an email from a hacker. Read more on this story here.
A recent study by the accounting firm Kaufman Rossin & Co. in Southern Florida has revealed that although the total number of breach incidents (affecting 500 or more people) dropped from 2010 to 2011, the top threat remained theft of portable devices. Read more on the study here.
According to data from the Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Census Bureau, the top 5 states for data breaches when population is accounted for include Virginia, Utah, New Hampshire, Tennessee and South Carolina. Read more here.
About a week ago, hackers posted online that they had retrieved 1,000,000 Apple Device IDs from the laptop of an FBI agent. Monday, it was discovered that these IDs were not in fact stolen from the FBI, but from a Florida digital publishing company, BlueToad. Read more about these developments here.
Between January 1, 2009 and May 31, 2012, 268 incidences of data breaches occurred in the government sector, according to an analysis of government data breach data. These breaches are expected to have exposed 94 Million records containing personally identifiable information. Read more on this story here.
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission reported that a contractor hired to upgrade meter reading software is missing a hard drive containing customer account information.
In one of the worst data breaches exposed this summer, hackers posted 1 million Apple unique device identification numbers (UDIDs) on Monday for Apple products such as iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch’s, all purportedly stolen from the FBI.
College at Brockport announced that it has spent $20,000 over the summer to install a new credit card processing system after a data breach. Hackers infiltrated the college’s computers and stole bank and credit card information.
University of South Carolina has begun notifying the 34,000 people, all with connections to the College of Education, whose personal information may have been accessed in a computer intrusion.