Category Archives: Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

Roundup: Health Care Data Breaches and Defenses in the News

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Health care data continues to be a prime target for cyber attacks. Cybersecurity Ventures predicts the health care industry will fall victim to two to three times more cyber attacks in 2021 than other industries. Successful cyber attacks compromise both patient safety and the public’s trust. But why, exactly, is health care such an attractive […]

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What’s Behind the Leaks of Customer Data From Retailer Databases?

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Retail data breaches involving customer data happen often today. However, they tend to be smaller insize than health care, finance or government breaches. So, the general public notices them less. Yet, they happen more often than realized. Why? And how can you defend against them?  Human Error in Customer Data Theft All types of retail […]

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Private 5G Security: Consider Security Risks Before Investing

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So, 5G is one of those once-in-a-generation types of leaps that will alter how we operate. However, 5G security comes with a lot of challenges. Private 5G networks require us to look at attack surface management in a different way. How do they change the way we need to defend our data? And, what is […]

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McDonald’s discloses hack of customer data in South Korea and Taiwan

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Hackers recently breached the IT systems of McDonald’s and accessed email addresses, phone numbers and delivery addresses for certain customers in South Korea and Taiwan, the fast food giant said Friday. “In the coming days, a few additional markets will take steps to address files that contained employee personal data,” McDonald’s said in an emailed statement. The burger chain said it quickly identified and contained the breach, which involved a “small number of files.” No customer payment information was affected, according to McDonald’s. The breach also involved business contact information of U.S. employees and franchisees, the Wall Street Journal reported. In some cases, the intruders also accessed data about restaurant seating capacity and the square footage of play areas, the Journal reported. It was unclear who was responsible for the hack. A McDonald’s spokesperson did not respond to an emailed question on who the culprit might be. McDonald’s, which reported […]

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Learning the Building Blocks You Need for Consumer Identity and Access Management Part 2: Engage

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Some online experiences are so bad that 25% of users abandon an application after first use and never return. To avoid this retention problem, you should offer better engagement to your customers during their authentication and authorization process. Engage is the second of four building blocks essential for successful consumer identity and access management, or […]

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Sensitive medical, financial data exposed in extortion of Massachusetts hospital

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A hospital in Massachusetts quietly paid off a ransomware gang after a February hack that exposed patients’ sensitive medical and financial data, the hospital said in a May 28 statement. Sturdy Memorial Hospital, a 126-bed facility in the city of Attleboro, said that the information exposed in the hacking incident may have included insurance claim numbers, medical history, treatment information, Social Security numbers, bank routing numbers and credit card numbers and security codes, among other data. “In exchange for a ransom payment, we obtained assurances that the information acquired would not be further distributed and that it had been destroyed,” Sturdy Memorial said. Other Massachusetts health providers with which Sturdy Memorial Hospital has worked were swept up in the incident. The breach affected data belonging to patients of Harbor Medical Associates, South Shore Medical Center and providers affiliated with South Shore Physician Hospital Organization, according to the statement. Nearly four […]

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Learning the Building Blocks of Your CIAM Framework Part 1: Capture

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Ever been on a website, ready to check out, only to encounter multiple fields to fill at once? Did the process frustrate you and make you close the page without completing your transaction? Such experiences and the resulting loss of customers could be happening to your business. That’s why you need better consumer identity and […]

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Ransomware forced Bose systems offline, exposed personal data of 6 former employees

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A ransomware intrusion of the computer networks of Bose in March forced some of the electronic giant’s IT systems offline and exposed the personal information of a handful of former employees, the company said in a breach notification letter. Seven weeks into an investigation of the incident, in late April, Bose discovered that hackers had accessed and “potentially exfiltrated” files containing the Social Security numbers and salary information of six former Bose employees based in New Hampshire, according to the statement. Bose could not confirm whether the data was exfiltrated, the company said in a May 19 letter posted to the New Hampshire attorney general’s website. Neither private sector experts nor the FBI have found evidence of the data being sold on the dark web, the letter said. The incident is a reminder that while, high profile ransomware attacks like the one on Colonial Pipeline are impossible to miss, some […]

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Hack of IT provider exposes data on 4.5 million Air India passengers

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Data on 4.5 million Air India passengers was compromised in a hack of a major IT provider to the airline industry, Air India announced last week. The initial breach of the IT provider, SITA — disclosed in March — affected numerous airlines from Lufthansa to Cathay Pacific, but the investigation has now revealed one of its biggest victims yet in India’s flagship air carrier. The breach covers nearly a decade of data on Air India passengers, and includes passport, ticket information and credit card information, Air India said in a statement. Air India said it has secured the hacked servers, notified credit card firms of the breach and reset passwords for frequent flyer accounts. The airline also advised passengers to change their own passwords where applicable. “[O]ur data processor has ensured that no abnormal activity was observed after securing the compromised servers,” the statement said. It is still unclear who is […]

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Health Care Data: It’s Your Personal ‘National Security’ Information

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If you wanted to put all the pieces of a person’s profile together, health care data would likely be the most important piece of the personally identifiable information (PII) puzzle. It’s powerful. A heartbeat can open a door. This data is the most important type related to a person, the crown jewel of PII data […]

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