Two hospitals are reporting breaches involving x-ray films. WITN reports that a North Carolina hospital, Vidant Pungo Hospital, is sending letters to as many of the 1,100 affected patients as they can find, after paper jackets with old radiology films were accidentally sent out with the trash to a local landfill.The paper jackets contained the…
Month: November 2012
This ‘n that
Some of what I’m reading this morning while working on my first cup of coffee: I was surprised to read that the Department of Defense is involved in notifying military members and families who paid state income taxes in South Carolina about the massive SC Department of Revenue breach. Does the DOD normally get involved…
CA: Patient records accessed after county clinic burglary
Tomoya Shimura reports: Medical records at the Westside Park Elementary School Based Health Center may have been accessed when the county clinic was burglarized, San Bernardino County officials said Tuesday. Staff at the clinic in the 18200 block of Casaba Road discovered the burglary on Oct. 1. In addition to damages to the building, office…
Thai Travel Center Hacked, 1400 user credentials leaked
Hacker collective Grey Security, @Gsec_ yesterday released a dump of accounts from the Thai Travel Center website (https://www.thaitravelcenter.com) which hosts a bunch of services and information aimed at helping out people who are travelling around Thailand. The leak has been announced on twitter and posted to pastebin. > Grey Security @gsec_ Thai Travel Center #OWNED – https://pastebin.com/FFUEQshh –#ForTehLulz? #GSecsBackBitch. @TruthIzSexy @Cyber_War_News@An0nPun1shm3nt the leaked…
More on the Wounded Warrior Project laptops theft
Back in September, I noted that a burglary at Wounded Warrior Project’s Jacksonville headquarters may have compromised some employees’ information. WWP’s notification to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office is now available online, and so we now have some additional details: Information on the stolen laptops included employees’ names, addresses, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, dates…
AZ: Public printing of court documents halted due to security breach
Scott Orr reports: Citing a security breach in a software update, Sandra K. Markham, clerk of Yavapai County Superior Court, on Monday ordered that the ability to print documents from public-access court document computer terminals be shut down. “One of my clerks was being an investigator, and she just tried to see if something he…