Three recent breach reports to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that flew under the media radar: Automatic Data Processing (ADP) reported that a laptop stolen from an associate’s home contained information on A. W. Hastings‘ employees including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers. The laptop, stolen November 12, was encrypted and had a logon…
Month: December 2011
WV: Bank says Va. company failed to prevent ID theft (update1)
Here’s another breach I hadn’t heard about. Interesting to see the bank suing the firm for negligence in security. Kyla Asbury reports: The Bank of Charles Town is suing N/L Entertainment after it claims the company failed to prevent the theft of debit card and credit information of its customers at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas…
Security breach at Loma Linda University Medical Center affects 1,336 patients
Steve Barrie reports: The private medical records of more than 1,300 patients and/or their guarantors were endangered for a time earlier this month when a Loma Linda University Medical Center employee took home documents against hospital policy. The records have been secured and the employee fired, said Briana Pastorino, spokeswoman for the medical center, in…
Special Forces Information Leaked from Anonymous STRATFOR Attack
content/images/gallery/random2/antisec-teaser-12-27-pastebin-com_.png Well its been a few days now of leaking data, mass media, tv reports all around the world and much much more. The IT team at STRATFOR will definitely be working hard this Xmas to attempt to prevent the unpreventable with heaps of information already being dumped the STRATFOR name seems to of been badly damaged. Today…
New York City Public Advocate notifies web site submitters of security breach, but did they downplay its scope?
It felt like an exercise in futility, but on Christmas Day, I started making phone calls to alert the NYC Office of the Public Advocate that their database had been hacked and personal and sensitive information of those seeking assistance had been exposed. No one ever called me back, but having provided specific details to…
ALCU sues state of Alaska, seeks the return of medical records seized from Ketchikan clinic
With all of the Medicare and Medicaid fraud prosecutions that have gone on and are going on around the country, have you ever thought about whether your patient records with sensitive information are winding up in the hands of non-medical personnel or how many people might have access to them? Shannon Haugland reports that the…