Karen M. Cheung has more on the Prime Healthcare case, reporting that the FBI has interviewed the patient who gave her records to California Watch. While much of the report concerns the original focus of possible fraudulent billing of Medicare, some of the story concerns the privacy aspects. Reading it, you can understand why Prime…
Month: January 2012
Cn: CSDN “hack” was an insider leak, and many other reported “hacks” were fabricated leaks – authorities
China Daily reports: Four people have been detained by police and eight others punished after they were found guilty of fabricating a massive leak of online personal data by hackers over the past month in China, the country’s Internet watchdog announced Tuesday. China’s leading anti-virus software provider, Beijing-based Qihoo 360, claimed in late December that…
GA: Man gets a year in prison for hacking, wiping medical competitor's computer
This is a follow-up to a breach reported previously on this blog. As I had deduced, the affected practice was Atlanta Perinatal Associates. The competitor still hasn’t been publicly named, however. Fran Jeffries reports: An Atlanta man has been sentenced to serve a year and a month in prison for hacking into a competing medical…
United beauty hacked and 5000+ accounts dumped by @p0keu
p0keu, has been quiet over the past few months and now has returned with 5000+ accounts being dumped from unitedbeauty.co.uk. which is an online beauty store The accounts was once again stored in plain text and considering the amount of accounts, you would really expect this website to have encrypted passwords. So as stated above, the…
UK: Patient details on stolen hard drives, ICO set to impose huge fine
A story in The Argus suggests that the Information Commissioner’s Office is set to slam an NHS trust with a huge fine over a data breach: Confidential information belonging to tens of thousands of patients and staff were at risk of being exposed after computer hard drives were stolen and put up for sale on…
Ca: Make data breach reporting mandatory, consumer group says
Christine Wong reports: Canada’s proposed new law on data breaches is a toothless piece of legislation that amounts to little more than a sugar pill when it comes to protecting consumers’ privacy and personal information, an Ottawa-based watchdog group said Monday. In its report “Data Breaches: Worth Noticing?”, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) recommends…