Raleigh, N.C. – Today, Department of Health and Human Services Acting Medicaid Director Sandra Terrell released the following information regarding the incorrect mailing of 48,752 Medicaid cards to the wrong addresses: After a review of the incident, it has been determined that some Medicaid cards were incorrectly sent because of human error in computer programming and…
Month: January 2014
MD: Employee at Good Samaritan Hospital pleads guilty to stealing patient info
Ian Duncan of the Baltimore Sun has an update on two of the defendants involved in a breach noted previously on this blog. Two women pleaded guilty Friday to using stolen medical records to open or take over credit accounts at department stores and setting up a cottage industry selling fraudulently obtained goods. Chanell Cole,…
New Mexico Oncology and Hematology Consultants notifies patients after laptop stolen from employee's office
Statement on their website: Albuquerque, New Mexico (December 31, 2013) – On November 13, 2013, New Mexico Oncology and Hematology Consultants, Ltd. (NMOHC) discovered that a laptop computer was stolen from an employee’s office. The stolen laptop computer may have contained the following types of unsecured protected health information (PHI): names, dates of birth, and…
Pointer: World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League Hacked, 175,333 Accounts Leaked (Updated)
Another report from CyberWarNews.info: Tonight a hacker using the handle @smitt3nz has announced another leak which this time is from the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League Website (http://www.wptapl.com/). […] The surprising part about this is the fact the an Australian government worker from the defence department has registered with the defence.gov.au email. Other email addresses used are whitehouse, IRS, us courts, Wichita…
Pointer: MMMOOO hacked – 86,369 User Credentials Leaked
Over on CyberWarNews.info, Lee reported: Today a group of hackers going by the name hitlersec have been announcing some breaches and one of the is MMMOOO (http://www.immmooo.com/en/). MMMOOO is a website owned and operated by Shanghai Jibiao Info Tech Co., Ltd, and is a mobile phone application aimed at the Chinese market. Read more on Cyber…
Hacker backdoors Linksys, Netgear, Cisco and other routers
Richard Chirgwin reports: The new year begins as the old year ended: with yet more vulnerabilities turning up in consumer-grade DSL modems. A broad hint for any broadband user would be, it seems, to never, ever enable any kind of remote access to the device that connects you to the Internet. However, the hack published…