Patients’ privacy may have been breached after the Southern Primary Health Organisation clinic in Invercargill was broken into. Police are still investigating but Fairfax Media believes two laptops and two hard drives containing patient records were stolen. One hard drive is believed to contain the patient files of students who underwent the Human Papillomavirus (HPV)…
Month: August 2013
FTC Files Complaint Against LabMD for Failing to Protect Consumers' Privacy
More action in another case I’ve followed on this blog involving LabMD (previous coverage here). A notice today from the FTC: The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against medical testing laboratory LabMD, Inc. alleging that the company failed to reasonably protect the security of consumers’ personal data, including medical information. The complaint alleges that…
Hacker pleads guilty to charges he sold “magic passwords” to sensitive networks
Dan Goodin reports: A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a scheme to hack in to sensitive computer networks operated by the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and other sensitive organizations and then sell “magic passwords” providing backdoor access to others. Andrew James Miller, 23, of Devon, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to one count of…
OH: Personal documents found in desk could put former Talawanda High School students at risk
Bob Ratterman reports: Talawanda School District officials are offering a year of credit protection to former Talawanda High School students whose personal information may have been left in a desk sold at auction Aug. 3. A person who purchased a desk at the sale notified the district that it contained student information, including emergency medical…
Deutsche Telekom admits staff data security breach
Telecompaper had a small item about a breach involving Deutsche Telekom. Astrid Maier of Manager Magazin had the story upon which it was based. Based solely on my understanding of a Google translation of the latter, it appears that nearly 25 employees who shouldn’t have had access to identifiable information were able to access the…
KS: Hundreds at risk of identity theft after personal records dumped in public recycling bin
Here we go again: hundreds of documents with personal information of employees of Washington Inventory Service were found in a dumpster in Merriam, Kansas.