Associated Press reports: A woman from New York came to New Mexico to terminate her pregnancy at one of the nation’s four late-term abortion clinics after she found out the fetus she had been carrying for more than eight months had severe brain abnormalities. There were complications during the abortion and the 26-year-old woman was…
Month: February 2013
SCDOR breach: Judge dismisses Governor and former DOR director as defendants
Meg Kinnard of Associated Press reports that Circuit Judge G. Thomas Cooper has dismissed Governor Haley and South Carolina’s former revenue director as defendants in a lawsuit over the state’s massive security breach last year in the Department of Revenue. But… and this will be interesting to watch, the judge said he needed more time…
Montgomery woman sentenced to prison for stealing personal info of 800 Troy Regional Medical Center patients
As a follow-up to a breach previously covered on this blog: Angeline Austin, who stole over 800 Troy Hospital (Troy Regional Medical Center) patients’ identity information for use in a tax refund fraud scheme while employed by Southern Records Management, was sentenced to 65 months in prison. Of note, the tax refund fraud/ID theft had serious…
Wayne Memorial Hospital notified patients after CD with their unencrypted records was lost in the mail
This was reported by James Haggerty on January 23, but I just stumbled across it now: A compact disc including information on Medicare patients at Wayne Memorial Hospital disappeared recently en route to its intended recipient. An administrator at Wayne Memorial in Honesdale on Nov. 28 sent the unencrypted disc and related paperwork by certified…
EU proposes new cybercrime reporting rules
BBC reports: Over 40,000 firms, including energy providers, banks and hospitals could be required to report cyber-break-ins under new rules proposed by the EU. It is part of a move to intensify global efforts to fight cybercrime. Digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes said that Europe needed to improve how it dealt with cybersecurity. But firms…
Utah senate passes bill that would require Medicaid or CHIP participants be notified that their data will be in state databases
Sometimes breaches result in legislation. That appears to be the case in Utah, where the Associated Press reports that the state senate passed a bill in response to two breaches the state experienced: Utah lawmakers want to alert participants in the state Medicaid program or Children’s Health Insurance Program that their personal information will be…