Associated Press reports: A University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employee has sued the hospital network for credit restoration services and identity theft insurance in the wake of a data breach that has seen hackers use the personal information of hundreds of employees to file bogus federal income tax returns. Alice Patrick, who works at UPMC…
Month: May 2014
Los Robles Hospital And Medical Center breach
Los Robles Hospital And Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California notified 2,523 patients of a breach involving their business associates, Courier Express/Atlanta, Courier Express/Charlotte & Courier Express US, Inc. The breach, which occurred on February 14, was reported to HHS as involving “Theft, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure” of paper records. There is no statement that I could find on…
Court dismisses most of lawsuit over 2011 TRICARE/SAIC data breach
Andrew Scurria reports the latest on a lawsuit stemming from one of the biggest breaches ever involving PHI – the theft of backup tapes from SAIC from an employee’s unattended vehicle in 2011. A D.C. federal judge on Friday gutted a wide-ranging multidistrict case seeking damages from the U.S. Department of Defense and security contractor Science…
UK: Met Police in dock as probe reveals over 300 data breaches
An investigation into the data protection practices of the Metropolitan Police – the UK’s biggest force – has exposed a litany of data breaches, with a charge-sheet that includes officers even handing information to underworld figures. In total there were 300 breaches of data protection rules at The Met between 2009 and 2013 but the…
Class action lawsuit filed against UPMC over data breach
Update: Ultimate Software Group has denied any responsibility for the UPMC breach and say they don’t think UPMC is even a client. Read more here. Original article: Bob Mayo reports: A class action lawsuit filed in federal court targets both the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and a payroll software company it uses called…
Hacker Goes to Top Dutch Court in U.S. Extradition Fight
Maud van Gaal and David Voreacos report: Vladimir Drinkman, a Muscovite wanted by the U.S. on charges he helped lead a ring that hacked 17 companies including 7-Eleven Inc. and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ), is fighting a Dutch court ruling that would allow his extradition. The Supreme Court of the Netherlands, the nation’s top…