Statement from Jackson Health System in Florida: Jackson Health System has conducted an internal investigation regarding several boxes of medical records that are unaccounted for and/or are missing from Jackson Health System Health Information Management (HIM) department. Those 1,407 patients whose personal information was accessed have been notified and offered free credit card fraud protection….
Month: May 2013
Xbox Live Breach Claim By @Reckz0r – Proven as Fake –
PLEASE READ UPDATES THIS IS VERY FALSE AND HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE SO Today has been interesting to say the least, hacker @reckz0r has announced that they have gained access to Xbox Live servers and as a result credentials have been leaked. The announcement came a few hours ago from the hackers twitter account…
Proxy advisory firm settles SEC charges over data breach: info for concert tickets and meals deal incurs $300,000 fine
Sarah N. Lynch reports: Institutional Shareholder Services has settled civil charges by U.S. regulators that an employee of the prominent proxy advisory firm shared nonpublic voting data in exchange for meals and concert tickets. The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday that ISS, a unit of MSCI Inc, will pay a $300,000 penalty and…
Woman involved in hospital identity theft sentenced to 10 years
More follow-up on a tax refund fraud scheme that used patient information from Troy Regional Medical Center in Alabama and other non-medical entities. This case was noted previously on this blog. Robbyn Brooks of the Troy Messenger reports: A woman who pled guilty in an identity theft/tax refund scam involving Troy Regional Medical Center records has…
Bachmann’s claim of a vast IRS health database of ‘sensitive, intimate’ information
Glenn Kessler fact-checks claims by Michele Bachmann: “So now we find out these people are making decisions based on our politics and beliefs, and they’re going to be in charge of our health care. There’s a huge national database that’s being created right now. Your health care, my health care, all the Fox viewers health…
th3j35t3r Takes on Westboro for godhatesoklahoma.com
On the 20th of may 2013 a very sad event happened in Oklahoma which has seen many people killed and injured and suffering greatly. Sadly this is the exact type of thing that a certain group likes to gain on and that group is Westboro baptist church who has a very long history of doing outrageous things when tragedies like this happen. It appears…