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Month: January 2014

Ca: Misdirected faxes continue to compromise patient privacy

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Dissent

Press release from the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner:  Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner, Gary Dickson, has released his latest Investigation Report H-2014-001 which is a systemic investigation examining several privacy breaches involving misdirected faxes containing personal health information. In total, this investigation captures ten different trustees, including eight regional health authorities, 20 separate files…

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Alabama Medical Clerk and Another Indicted in Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Schemes

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Dissent

Sasha Webb and Charlie Jackson have each been indicted for stolen identity refund fraud crimes, Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama announced today following the unsealing of their indictments after their arrests. Webb was arrested on Dec….

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Veteran Affairs’ E-Benefits website exposing veterans’ information

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Dissent

Jon Camp reports: Navy veteran Sylvester Woodland said he couldn’t believe what he was seeing Wednesday night when he logged onto the Veteran Affairs’ E-Benefits website. “It gave me a different person’s name, each and every time I came back,” Woodland said. At first I thought it was just a glitch, but the more I…

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Veteran Affairs' E-Benefits website exposing veterans' information

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Dissent

Jon Camp reports: Navy veteran Sylvester Woodland said he couldn’t believe what he was seeing Wednesday night when he logged onto the Veteran Affairs’ E-Benefits website. “It gave me a different person’s name, each and every time I came back,” Woodland said. At first I thought it was just a glitch, but the more I…

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U.S. companies allowed to delay disclosure of data breaches

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Dissent

There’s really nothing new in here that regular readers of this blog won’t know already, but Karen Freifeld reports: A decade of lawmaking by U.S. states to ensure consumers are told when their data has been hacked still lets companies such as Target Corp wait weeks or even months to disclose security breaches. Forty-six of…

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Oops – some Burlington residents’ SSN exposed on the city’s website

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Dissent

The City of Burlington in Vermont is notifying some of its residents that their names and Social Security numbers had not been redacted from their tax abatement requests that were submitted to the city’s board and uploaded to the city’s website as part of a clickable agenda for the meeting. The information was uploaded on…

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