The NYS Department of State got a clean bill of health from the state’s Office of the State Comptroller in an audit of their disposal of electronic devices containing personal, private, and sensitive information. The report was issued May 13: Department of State Disposal of Electronic Devices (Issued 05/13/13) Purpose To determine if electronic devices being surplused…
Month: July 2013
llinois health agency notifies 3,100 Cook County residents of mailing error disclosing PHI
WLS reports: The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services says information on about 3,100 clients in Cook County may have been released. It says a managed care contractor accidentally sent client ID cards to the wrong addresses. The personal information on the Family Health Network ID card included member name, state issued Medicaid number…
Michigan Agency Breaches PHI But Says Not Bound by HIPAA
I was glad to see that Health Data Management followed up on a breach where the entity said it wasn’t a HIPAA breach and had no duty to notify: Responding to questions from Health Data Management, a Michigan Department of Community Health spokesperson said the compromised data “were not medical records and therefore, no notification…
Insider threat, redux
Tampa Bay Times reports: Federal authorities say employees at James A. Haley VA Medical Center and Tampa General Hospital stole patients’ identities in tax fraud schemes. Haley employee David F. Lewis is accused of taking the names and Social Security numbers of dozens of hospital patients and selling the information to people who used it to…
Nintendo rewards program site hacked, names, email addresses and phone numbers possibly compromised
Nick Summers reports: Nintendo admitted today that Club Nintendo, a loyalty program that gives players exclusive products in exchange for registering their consoles and games, has been hacked. The company launched an investigation on July 2 after witnessing a “large” number of errors on the site. Nintendo can now confirm that 23,9326 unauthorized log-ins occurred between June…
Confidential Hertfordshire County Council papers ‘found in street’
From BBC: A council has apologised after papers holding personal staff details were found discarded in a street. Liberal Democrat councillor Paul Zukowskyj said he saw Hertfordshire County Council documents outside a former adult care office in Hatfield. Derrick Ashley, cabinet member for resources, said the council apologised and would investigate how it happened. Mr…