Usually when I see an envelope from NRAD Medical Associates, P.C. in my mail, it concerns a radiology bill or insurance matter following services there. But today, I opened the envelope to find a breach notification. Their notification, signed by their president, vice-president, and secretary-treasuresr, begins with the now somewhat pro forma statement about how they are seriously committed to the privacy…
Month: June 2014
Radiologist bypasses billing system computer security and acquires 97,000 patients’ info from NRAD Medical Associates – Update 4
Posting this here temporarily as phiprivacy.net is experiencing some problems. Usually when I see an envelope from NRAD Medical Associates, P.C. in my mail, it concerns a radiology bill or insurance matter following services there. But today, I opened the envelope to find a breach notification. Their notification, signed by their president, vice-president, and secretary-treasuresr, begins with the now somewhat…
NYC parents of school children: wake up and speak up to protect your child’s information!
Several years ago, I wrote to the NYC Comptroller’s Office and asked them to re-audit the NYC Department of Education on information technology/data security. To my knowledge, they haven’t done so. If you are a parent of a student in the NYC schools, this should concern you because the previous audit and two re-audits showed…
NY: East Quogue Union Free School District – audit
I’ve occasionally posted audits of school districts in New York State conducted by the NYS Comptroller’s Office. Yesterday, Comptroller DiNapoli released some new audits yesterday. One of them involved an audit of information technology at the East Quogue Union Free School District in Suffolk County. The audit covered the period July 1, 2012 — August 31,…
Inside a VA breach investigation
A breach involving the Denver VA center was reported in the VA’s most recent monthly report to Congress. I’m including it here because it shows how thorough the VA can be in investigating breaches – and how time-consuming and labor-intensive it can be when someone neglects security measures like a cable: Incident Summary Two biomedical device laptops were…
#YO_NO! Messaging app ‘Yo’ gets hit by hackers
No one could have possibly seen this coming, right? Shaun Nichols reports: Just days after the Yo app debuted to much fanfare (and head-scratching), the mono-message social tool has fallen prey to hackers. A group of students from Georgia Tech University claim via TechCrunch to have accessed the application’s entire user database, and gained the ability to obtain…