HHS has added 19 reports to its breach tool. Some of these have been previously covered on this blog, and I’ve linked to the coverage below: Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth/Shred-it Iowa Department of Human Services (affected 7,335, a fact we did not previously know) San Jose Medical Supply Co. (affected 800, a fact…
Month: July 2013
Walgreens must pay woman $1.44 million over HIPAA violation
Tim Evans reports: A Marion County jury Friday awarded a woman $1.44 million after finding Walgreens and a pharmacist violated her privacy when the pharmacist looked up and shared the woman’s prescription history. The lawsuit filed in Marion Superior Court spun out of a tangled relationship between the pharmacist, her husband and the man’s ex-girlfriend….
Is Chase’s (800) 355-5265 really their fraud detection number? (Spoiler alert: yes)
Yesterday morning, I received a call from an 800-number that was only identified on my Caller ID as “Toll-Free.” I didn’t pick up, but Googled the number and found pages of reports, many of which suggested that the number, presumably for Chase Fraud Detection, was a scam. Others claimed it was for real. Not very…
HALOCK Investigation Finds that 25% of Sampled Colleges and Universities Are Putting Student and Parent Private Financial Data at Risk
Yes, some surveys are self-serving, but this one has some data of interest: Cybersecurity firm, HALOCK Security Labs, found that this back-to-school season may be an ideal time for data thieves to steal the personal and financial information of students and parents. HALOCK found that over 50% of the colleges and universities investigated allow for…
Oregon Health & Science University notifies patients of ‘cloud’ health information storage
Oregon Health & Science University is notifying 3,044 patients that their OHSU health information was stored on an Internet-based email and/or document storage service, also known as a “cloud” computing system. Although the Internet-based service provider (Google Drive, Google Mail) is password-protected and has security measures and policies in place to protect information, it is…
VisLink Surveillance Hacked, Accounts leaked and Partners Exposed
This weekend a hacker using the handle @G3NTbl4ck has announced and released data from a Surveillance company named Vislink (https://surveillance.vislink.com). Vislink has been around since 1999 and they specialize in wireless, video and IP technologies together with the supporting management systems. Vislink’s Surveillance solutions support covert and overt video surveillance missions including: criminal investigation, airborne downlink, crisis…