Bryant Jordan reports: The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee has filed legislation requiring Department of Veterans Affairs’ hospital personnel to have the consent of a patient or other authorized party before setting up surveillance cameras in the veteran’s room. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., said in a statement Thursday his “Veterans Privacy Act” is…
Month: April 2013
TennProgram.info hacked, user accounts leaked for #Opliberation
Long going operation dubbed #Opliberation by hacktivists has taken sights to a teen program information websites leaking its user database. The attack has been claimed by anonymous hacktivists and the target is TeenProgram.info which provides information about schooling for trouble teens in which opliberation is fighting to expose for the corruption and abuse that goes…
Long Island Health Care Provider Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for $10 Million Medicare Fraud and HIPAA Identity Theft
An update to a case reported previously on this blog: Yesterday, Helene Michel, an owner and officer of Medical Solutions Management Inc. (“MSM”), was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York. Michel was convicted after a three-week jury…
Azerbaijan: Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies Documents Leaked
Today i have been contacted by an anonymous leaker who has pointed me in the direction of a leak of files from the Azerbaijan government. The leak is said to come from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies and is said to further affect US Contractors to the Department of Defence. > Azerbaijan (i/ˌæzərbaɪˈdʒɑːn/ az-ər-by-jahn; Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan), officially the Republic of…
UK: Torbay patients' medical records found on Dawlish road
This is happening too damned frequently. BBC reports that eight Torbay Hospital patients’ confidential medical records were found on a busy street in Devon. The records were in two courier bags found by a woman on the A379 yesterday afternoon. Both the Royal Devon and Exeter (RD&E) Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South Devon Healthcare…
NZ: Privacy breaches revealed
Then again, maybe the government of New Zealand should just stop using all mail altogether – postal and email. Here’s yet another breach: Confidential legal aid details of a Bay man accused of breaching community work were mistakenly sent to a woman in a major privacy breach. The Katikati man’s name, address and what his…