Associated Press reports that a patient in Alaska conducting a Google search discovered that patient records were exposed on the web and notified the police. Dr. Paul Beane, a chiropractor at the Sitka Wellness Center, told the [Daily Sitka] Sentinel an “electronic medical record software vendor” he used for about 9 months in 2008 had…
Month: November 2011
Two potential class action lawsuits filed against Sutter Health (updated)
It was only a matter of time, right? Darrell Smith reports: Sutter Health is being sued for negligence and other allegations in the mid-October theft of a computer from Sutter Medical Foundation headquarters that held information on more than 4 million of its patients. The class-action suit, filed Monday on behalf of plaintiff Karen Pardieck…
NJ: Four charged with stealing identities; two were DMV employees
Two state motor vehicle clerks and two businessmen from Burlington County have been charged with stealing identities from government records and selling them for as little as $200. Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini, Jr. announced the arrests yesterday, saying the busts were the result of seven-month investigation at two New Jersey Motor Vehicles Commission…
Bunch of defaced sites by @FailRooT
content/images/gallery/ryan-cleary/25-ryansbedroom.jpg @FailRooT has been on a defacing streak today which will most likely leave many administrators wondering why… And the answer to that would be do something about yur security problems before this happens and this wont happen. The sites that have been defaced so far within the last hour or so are. https://www.avivamientohoy.org/ https://www.copaamericabrasil2015.com/…
University of Kentucky HealthCare notifying almost 900 patients that lost phone may have contained information on them
The University of Kentucky HealthCare has posted a public notice on its web site today: The University of Kentucky is notifying 878 people regarding a breach of protected health information. On September 25, 2011, a phone was lost. The employee had access to electronic mail that may have included information about health conditions with medical…
Hungarian Citizen Pleads Guilty to Hacking into Marriott Computers and Attempting to Extort Employment from the Company
A Hungarian citizen pleaded guilty today to intentionally causing damage by transmitting a malicious code to Marriott International Corporation computers and to threatening to reveal confidential information obtained from the company’s computers if Marriott did not offer him a job. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced the guilty…