I recently noted that HHS’s breach tool had revealed some breaches we hadn’t known about. One of them was from Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts. I contacted them to request a copy of their statement or press release, and was told that because there were less than 500 patients affected in Massachusetts, they had…
Month: December 2012
Cabinet for Health and Family Services notifies 1,090 Medicaid patients after subcontractor's employee fell for a scam
Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) has issued a statement disclosing a recent breach: The Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) is informing 1,090 Medicaid clients by letter of a computer security breach that may have resulted in the unintentional release of information held by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services (HP ES), the vendor…
Out with the old, in with the new
As 2012 draws to a close, there are a gadzillion things I should be doing. Instead, I’m re-doing some of my blogs and moving them to a more privacy-friendly web hosting service. Hostgator never answered my questions about their privacy policy and their notice to users, so goodbye to them. Within the next few days, DataBreaches.net will…
Six Long Island men charged with using stolen Social Security numbers in three different tax refund fraud schemes
So the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York issued a press release on December 20 describing how 6 men were indicted for their roles in three tax refund fraud schemes. The three schemes resulted in more than 11,000 false income tax returns seeking refunds up to $73 million. According the…
HHS fines hospice $50,000 over laptop stolen from car
I was surprised to read this morning that Hospice of North Idaho had settled charges by HHS over a laptop stolen from an employee’s car in the summer of 2010. I was surprised, in part, because I was not aware of this incident at all as it had not appeared in HHS’s breach tool. Since…
Mobile Technology Company Zensis hacked, thousand of client details leaked
A mobile technology company has been attacked by hacker @GameOverVirus who recently has been on a leaking spree. The breached mobile company is Zensis.com, a mobile technology company that has been creating custom applications since 2003 for some very high profile clients. Zensis has had clients like vodafone and they display partners with Microsoft, Nokia, yahoo and…